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Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters

~ The Twilight Sad
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (7 May 2007)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Fat Cat
  • ASIN: B000N3SSS0
  • Other Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,603 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Listen  2. That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy 4:48£0.69
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Listen  4. Last Year's Rain Didn't Fall Quite So Hard 3:19£0.69
Listen  5. Talking With Fireworks / Here, It Never Snowed 5:14£0.69
Listen  6. Mapped By What Surrounded Them 4:02£0.69
Listen  7. And She Would Darken The Memory 5:49£0.69
Listen  8. I'm Taking The Train Home 5:51£0.69
Listen  9. Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters 4:06£0.69

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The songs on this Glasgow, Scotland quartet's folk-orienteddebut full-length veer musically from sensitive, Vashti Bunyan-like passages to energetic high-octane sonics, heavy on the guitars. Their lyrics, however, sung in an attractive Scots brogue, often describe frozen lives lived in an existential suburban emptiness. Intriguing stuff.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An immense album, 14 Jun 2007
Albums that attack you from nowhere are a rarity. A friend sent me an email with a link in it, the subject "I think you need to listen to this". The link was to The Twilight Sad's myspace page. One click was all it took, the music streaming through my tiny headphones and sending chills down my spine. With Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters they've created one of the most accomplished debut albums you'll hear all year.

This is an album of immense lyrics that create great huge paintings of romantic poetry all set against a vicious backdrop of overdriven guitars and feedback. The band are based in Scotland and the songs are all delivered in a thick Highlands drawl that at times spit and hurl the words at you and at other times silky smooth and warming. All the songs deal with the usual perils of life and love, the heartbreak and rejection entwined with the periods of elation and happiness that can only come with finding love. There's a hint of Morrissey and The Smiths elaborate playfulness with words, the images that are conjured up similar in vain; "Why do they come when it's always raining" from Walking For Two Hours bringing to mind dark Sundays on a small coastal town. That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy brings to mind dark family secrets and sounding like some Ian Banks novel: "The kids are on fire in the bedroom" twisted against the oddly haunting "I'm fourteen and you know I learnt the easy way". And She Would Darken The Memory also feels as though it's dealing with some childhood trauma, "Head up dear, the rabbit might die" followed quickly by "I'm putting up with your constant whine and I won't last too long" sounds dark and sinister, all set against the backdrop of charged guitars and crashing drums, the vocals dip into dark howls and yet hit rosy highs. With all these songs the music just further augments the scenes created. The guitars delve into post-rock territory in places, the charged and overdriven chords crash and burn into periods of delicate introspection. The drums also follow a similar pattern and are able to craft whirlwinds of noise before switching to passages of quiet and gentle brushing.

This is an album which, although only nine songs in length, feels like a epic novel. The lyrics are full of imagery and an intensity that you rarely get to see or hear these days. This is further enhanced by the wall of sound created by a band that squeezes the very life out of their instruments. If you thought The Arcade Fire has this corner of anthemic and literary indie-rock covered, think again.

Richard Hughes
www.thelineofbestfit.com
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Best of 2007?, 19 April 2007
An honest and hearfelt piece of work underpinned throughout by a peculiarly Scottish sensibility. Their finely honed negotiations between noise and melody are, considering the age of the players, pretty remarkable. If reference points are needed the obvious starting point is My Bloody Valentine, but in here there are also traces of early Cure, even folk music (they make effective use of an accordian). Epic in a decidedly melancholic fashion. The best record this year by far.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A cult waiting to happen, 9 April 2009
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The debut full length by the Twilight Sad is both trenchantly uncommercial and the sound of a cult band waiting to happen.

Blending a lo-fi aesthetic with walls of shoegaze guitar and more traditional instrumentation like piano and organ, the songs here eschew conventional verse/chorus/verse structure, instead achieveing their potency through building layers of noise on repeated motifs and subtly shifting lines of melody. Frontman James Graham's defiantly Scottish vocals won't be to everyone's taste either, (although bands like Idlewild and Arab Strap have proven this need not be a barrier to an audience) but they certainly help lend the songs here some of their menace.

Now, I have no wish to stereotype the Scots as an aggressive people, but the image of Graham swaggering toward you, alternately murmuring and barking lines like 'And does your fear not grow when when you see that you're all mine...with a knife in your chest,' is impossibly intimidating. When the album closes with the woozy, narcotic hum of Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters, the effect is of the carthasis following an act of violence.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 5 Stars & No Wonder
The Twilight Sad's debut may be the finest debut album by a Scottish band for many a year.

It's delicate opening is a teaser only, as when the guitars kick in, it... Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Proclaimers with feedback
I almost bought this based on reviews, that goodness I checked them out on myspace first. It sounds like the Proclaimers with some dodgy backing band.
Published 12 months ago by I. Gillan

5.0 out of 5 stars The twilight sad, a happy dawn
I really enjoyed this album - it has not been far from my CD player since I bought it on a whim - and would certainly recommend it to anyone who likes music with loud guitars or... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Vibrant, exciting and about time
Not for a long time have I been as genuinely excited by a Scottish band as I have listening to 'The Twilight Sad'. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic
This is a must buy if your musical tastes are a bit more adventurous than most. I first heard them live doing an acoustic hub session for Gideon Coe earlier this year and they... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars my fave album of 2007
this album is the work of geniuses. it has a cold, dark feeling throughout and this is what gives it a real edge. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars good good goood!
Superb debut album from a band in touch with life....
Nice to see the scottish accent not hidden .
Give it a try .....tres bien
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2.0 out of 5 stars Groundskeeper Willie-esque
I'm sorry, but I cannot get my head around James Graham's uncompromisingly thick Scottish accent. It's like listening to Groundskeeper Willie from The Simpsons. Read more
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