Depth and Originality from Scottish Band
AN indie rock band from Kilsyth, Scotland, The Twilight Sad give us No One Can Ever Know, evocatively fusing the surreal and the melancholic. Their third studio album, it was recorded in London, and is being released by Fat Cat Records on February 6th, 2012.
The experimentalism of the album is striking throughout, with the opening chords of track four, 'Don't Move', recalling those of Joy Division's 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'. Perhaps the most memorable piece, 'Sick', is already available as a 7" vinyl, and exudes a mellow, almost hypnotic quality. Band vocalist James Graham, as narrator, playfully arbitrates time and freedom ("I'll buy you the night/I'll buy you the time/We can do anything you want"). The lyrics are as philosophical as they are artistic, the notional uniting palpably with the creative.
Production Assistant Andrew Weatherall has said the album's aim is to achieve "...a colder, slightly militant feel", and parallels are to be observed between Radiohead's The Bends and OK Computer, the Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible, and this new compilation, with a moody originality and meditative aesthetic.
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