Scottish band The Twilight Sad’s third album No One Can Ever Know has been rather a long time coming – their last record, Forget the Night Ahead was released back in 2009. Following the departure of founding bass player Craig Orzel, the band have said their new record would head in a different direction, with guitarist Andy Macfarlane describing their new songs as “sparser […] with a colder, slightly militant feel.” Despite this however, they’ve certainly not lost their old charm – their dark, sinister sound remains here, and is even amplified on some tracks.
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The Twilight Sad come on to the stage with no small amount of intent. They seem like a band with something serious they need to get off their chest. We wait for wailings and gnashings of teeth which never quite materialise in a short, loud, earnest, somewhat self-satisfied set.
They sport a nice aesthetic, all saggy tight black jeans tucked into combat boots with guitarist in handlebar moustache and check shirt to match 80% of the male members of the audience. Launching into their first song with abandon, their passionate singer belts out inaudible lyrics over a bitey bass and pounding...
The Wrong Car is the latest offering from popular Kilsyth band The Twilight Sad, featuring four tracks of what could potentially be their finest material to rival their previous full lengths. Deemed as prog-rock with elements of shoe gaze and indie by their peers, the band have been causing quite a stir over the past few years after releasing Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters and Forget The Night Ahead amongst other extended plays.
The opening track of the new EP, also named The Wrong Car delivers over seven minutes of swirling, progressive guitars accompanied by the familiar Scottish...
