Seeing The Twilight Sad live in quadraphonic sound is more than a mouth-watering prospect. The band’s sound can challenge most post rock on a room filling level but it is when coupled with the deep, ever-so Scottish words of James Graham that it approaches behemoth scales within the scene they frequent.
Tonight’s unique event has drawn huge excitement with the ABC jam-packed and forming a who’s who of the Glasgow music scene with Frightened Rabbit, We Were Promised Jetpacks and even Tommy Reilly among others making up the numbers.
After a bit of pre-recorded banter demonstrating how the sound set up works tonight’s heroes emerge on stage. Opening with the slow brooding ‘Reflection of the Television’, the opener from impressive latest album ‘Forget the Night Ahead’, the band lurch into action with Graham seemingly spiralling through the emotions for undoubtedly one of the biggest crowd they have ever played to.
Working through a set of comprised pretty evenly from both full lengths The Twilight Sad certainly put an argument together for the label of one of Scotland’s best bands. The stand out tonight comes direct from their emphatic debut ‘Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters’ in the form of ‘I Am Taking the Train Home’ wooing the audience with an ever impressive wall of sound synonymous with The Twilight Sad.
Now when in comes to the quadraphonic experiment, being allowed to do this clearly means a lot to the band and here are truly mesmerising moments that strike awe. A slow has the sound experiment seeming to be almost lost but as the band edge through their set the sound become more and more noticeable and impressive. When Graham emotionally thanks the crowd, seeming quite overwhelmed with the event, sound rings beautifully around the entire room.
Ending the set on the wonderful ‘Cold Days From the Birdhouse’ The Twilight Sad are successful in showing just why they are so special to this scene and just in general. If you have not seen this band before, whether in quadraphonic or not, get yourself along the next time you can, you are missing out!
Photograph: Joshua Porter
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