2007 Indie Rock LP Repressed Inc Download code for the Album ‘Fourteen Autumns…’ is a complete record, the nine tracks working together to create a strong narrative flow. Deceptively simple songs are rendered transcendent. Bleached, overdriven guitars consistently ride a line between ambient and coruscating, working in tandem with an articulate, at times tumultuous rhythm section, forever poised between tension and release. Augmented by piano and more frequently accordion, which provide the songs with a dramatic swoon, The Twilight Sad purvey an awestruck, ragged sentimentality. Lyrically suggestive and metaphorical, their songs give glimpses of bitter experience and romantic failure, their songs at times verging on the anthemic or celebrative, yet firmly rooted in the familiar, often unsaid hurt behind day to day events.
The Ambitious debut album from Scotland's Twilight Sad lives up to the promise of last years acclaimed eponymous EP. Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters produced by Peter Katis, adds an epic scope to the band's already-evident focus on sonically detailed, emotive and eloquent songs.