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The Twilight Sad

Kilsyth trio taking their former wall-of-sound noise rock in a new, folkier direction in anticipation of their new album No One Can Ever Know.

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Review of reviews: No One Can Ever Know

Review of reviews: No One Can Ever Know

What we said and what they said about the new Twilight Sad album

1 Feb 2012

What we said: ‘This second album from The Twilight Sad is a surprising and substantial progression. It’s what you might call, we suspect, a definite grower – and perhaps a worthy Mercury contender nearer the time?’ The List What they said…

The Twilight Sad set for UK tour

The Twilight Sad set for UK tour

Kilsyth trio take third album No One Can Ever Know on tour

27 Jan 2012

With their third album No One Can Ever Know, masters of the dark side anthem The Twilight Sad add impressively to a catalogue that includes one of the finest Scottish debuts of recent years. It’s a bit of a surprise then to discover that the Kilsyth…

The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know

The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know

Influence of post-punk and synthesisers lends more heart-shredding, austere edge

(4 stars)23 Jan 2012

(FatCat) Bearing the uncertain honour of an ‘anti-production’ credit from Andrew Weatherall (it means general pre-recording guidance, it seems), this second album from The Twilight Sad is a surprising and substantial progression. The washes of epic…

The Twilight Sad

The Twilight Sad

O2 ABC, Glasgow, Fri 2 Apr 2010

(4 stars)15 Apr 2010

The Twilight Sad occupy shadows and angles; space and darkness. They delineate a rare silhouette onstage, and on our musical landscape: for all their Scottish indie references, bleak local folklore and Lanarkshire diction, their live performances often…

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Sad bring quadrophonic live show to Glasgow O2

23 Mar 2010

Get ready to rediscover the singular sound of Scotland’s melancholy doom rockers The Twilight Sad – now coming at you from all angles, explains Ryan Drever

The Twilight Sad

The Twilight Sad

4 Dec 2009

In our four-star review of their debut album Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters, the List proclaimed that the Twilight Sad are ‘a band who make sad music – yet it’s that particular Scottish sadness which finds itself couched in a kind of…

Twilight Sad

New Scottish bands

15 Nov 2007

Over the last couple of years, it has sometimes seemed like the end of an era for Scottish indie music. Starting with the amicable split of the seminal Delgados, and, more recently, the demise of Falkirk’s Arab Strap and underrated noiseniks…

Oh For Christ Sake I Like Shortcake featuring The Twilight Sad

Oh For Christ Sake I Like Shortcake featuring The Twilight Sad

16 Aug 2007

The name of this indie night is trying to tell us we should expect something Scottish. But nothing as twee or naff as a tartan tin of all-butter fingers. Instead, the line-up showcases four of Scotland’s most promising and pioneering acts. First up are…

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