The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters [Fat Cat Records - 2007]Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters is The Twilight Sad’s debut album. This Glasgow four piece mix together social aware often grim lyrical content sang in distinctive Scottish tones, with pounding and tuneful indie gitar work & accordion pump, with bleack pop and folk traces. Making a sound that is quite distinctive & memorable that stays rewarding for most of the albums running time. Really the thing that makes this stand out is the mix of guitar, accordion and the very distinctive and often emotion charged singing by vocalist James Graham,as he sings in a un-clichéd manner about relesonship breackdowns, housing estate and family unrest and shattered dreams. The first half of the album is a near perfect mix of tuneful, but effecting song craft with clever, wordy and relatable lyrics. The songs raising from acoustic bond to walls of guitar sound. The second half though still rewarding feels a little bit like thier treading water with their sound, the sngs become a little interchangble and samey, but hell this there debut album, so it cant be expected to be perfect from begin to end. A creative and memorable debut album, that tries to do something a little bit different with the indie guitar format.    Roger Batty
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