The Twilight Sad discography

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The Twilight Sad discography
Studio albums5
Live albums1
Compilation albums4
Music videos13
EPs5
Singles15

The discography of Scottish rock band The Twilight Sad consists of five studio albums, four compilation albums, fifteen singles, and five extended plays (EPs). The band currently consists of James Graham (vocals, lyrics), Andy MacFarlane (guitar, production), Johnny Docherty (bass), Brendan Smith (keyboards) and Sebastien Schultz (drums). The Kilsyth-based band formed in 2003 and were signed to Fat Cat Records when Alex Knight, co-founder of the label, went to Glasgow to watch the band perform their third gig and signed them on the spot.[1] The band released their debut EP The Twilight Sad in November 2006 in the United States only, followed by their debut album Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters in April 2007, which garnered widespread critical acclaim.[2] The album spawned two singles, "That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy" in April, and "And She Would Darken the Memory" in July. The following year, the band released Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did, a mini-album of reworked versions of songs from Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters and two non-album tracks, inspired by stripped-down live performances. A collection of live versions and previously unreleased tracks entitled Killed My Parents and Hit the Road was released in December 2008. The Twilight Sad's second studio album, Forget the Night Ahead, was released in September 2009 to further acclaim[3] and marked a shift in the band's direction towards a darker and more streamlined sound. The album produced three singles: "I Became a Prostitute" in August 2009, "Seven Years of Letters" in October 2009, and "The Room" in April 2010. Founding bassist Craig Orzel left the band in February 2010, and the band released The Wrong Car EP in September of that year.

The Twilight Sad's third studio album, No One Can Ever Know, was released in February 2012 and marked another stylistic shift, with the band citing industrial music and krautrock influences for a darker, sparser sound.[4] The album yielded two singles, "Sick" in November 2011 and "Another Bed" in February 2012 (both singles were released as limited edition 7" vinyl singles, with the non-album tracks "Untitled No. 67" and "A Million Ignorants", respectively); in addition to a collection of remixes entitled No One Can Ever Know: The Remixes, and a limited edition CD-R EP entitled N/O/C/E/K Tour EP, available only at select tour dates. In January 2014, the band released a free digital download and video of the band performing nine songs with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, recorded live at Paisley Abbey in October 2013.[5] The band's fourth studio album, Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave, was released in October 2014 to positive reviews,[6] preceded by the download-only single "Last January" in September. A limited edition EP, entitled Òran Mór Session, was self-released by the band in late October 2014 and made available only at the band's tour dates (the EP was later expanded with additional tracks and given a wider commercial release in October 2015). The album's second single, "I Could Give You All That You Don't Want", was released on 9 February 2015 as a picture disc 7" vinyl single, with the exclusive double A-side track "The Airport".[7] The album's third single, "It Never Was the Same", was released on 29 June 2015.[8] The single was released as a double A-side on white-coloured 7" vinyl, with the exclusive track "There's a Girl in the Corner" as covered by Robert Smith of The Cure.[9] Nobody Wants to Be Here turned out to be the band's last studio album with founding drummer Mark Devine, who amicably left the band in January 2018.

The Twilight Sad announced on 10 July 2018 that they had signed to Mogwai's label Rock Action Records, and released their new single "I/m Not Here [missing face]" for download and streaming.[10] On 5 September, the band announced that their fifth studio album, titled and stylised as It Won/t Be Like This All the Time, would be released on 18 January 2019. The first proper single, "Videograms", preceded the album on 26 October 2018. The album's third single, "VTr", was released as a digital download only on 13 November 2018. The album was released to universally positive reviews.[11] Two extra songs recorded during the album sessions, "Rats" and "Public Housing", were released as a limited edition double A-side 7" single on 6 December 2019.

Studio albums[]

Year Title Peak chart positions
SCO
[12]
UK
[13]
US
Heat

[14]
2007 Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
  • Released: 3 April 2007
  • Label: Fat Cat (FATCD55)
  • Formats: CD, limited edition CD, LP, DL
2009 Forget the Night Ahead
  • Released: 22 September 2009
  • Label: Fat Cat (FATCD77)
  • Formats: CD, 2LP, DL
41 186
2012 No One Can Ever Know
  • Released: 6 February 2012
  • Label: Fat Cat (FATCD98)
  • Formats: CD, LP, limited edition LP, DL
28 121 30
2014 Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave
  • Released: 27 October 2014
  • Label: Fat Cat (FATCD132)
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
13 51 29
2019 It Won/t Be Like This All the Time
  • Released: 18 January 2019
  • Label: Rock Action (ROCKACT116)
  • Formats: CD, 2LP, limited edition blue-coloured 2LP, DL
1 17 9

Live albums[]

Year Title Details
2020 It Won/t Be Like This All the Time Live
  • Released: 16 April 2020
  • Label:
  • Formats: Download/Streaming only
Live show collated from the November 2019 shows in London, Manchester and Edinburgh
2020 Òran Mór 2020
  • Released: 26 December 2020
  • Label:
  • Formats: Download/Streaming only
Live show recorded at Òran Mór in October 2020, James Graham and Andy MacFarlane only

Compilation albums[]

Year Title Details
2008 Killed My Parents and Hit the Road
  • Released: 8 December 2008 (released on vinyl 15 November 2019)
  • Label: Fat Cat (FATCD87)
  • Formats: CD, DL, LP
Collection of live and unreleased tracks.
2011 Demos
  • Released: 16 April 2011
  • Label: Fat Cat (FATTAPE01)
  • Format: Cassette
Limited edition split cassette release with Frightened Rabbit for Record Store Day.[15]
Track listing
No.TitleArtistLength
1."Be Less Rude"Frightened Rabbit3:02
2."I Feel Better"Frightened Rabbit2:51
3."Snake"Frightened Rabbit2:26
4."Keep Yourself Warm"Frightened Rabbit5:33
5."The Greys"Frightened Rabbit2:41
6."2d"The Twilight Sad2:56
7."3iv"The Twilight Sad3:39
8."2c"The Twilight Sad2:27
9."Ravishing Rick Rude" (Cover version of Frightened Rabbit's "Be Less Rude")The Twilight Sad3:16
2012 No One Can Ever Know: The Remixes
  • Released: 19 November 2012
  • Label: Fat Cat (FATCD99)
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
Remixes of songs from No One Can Ever Know.[16]
2014 Live at the Paisley Abbey
  • Released: 29 January 2014
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: DL
Recorded live with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra at Paisley Abbey on 14 October 2013; conducted by John Logan.[5]
Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."The Wrong Car"7:11
2."I Became a Prostitute"4:25
3."Sick"4:45
4."Mapped by What Surrounded Them"3:17
5."Alphabet"4:37
6."The Room"4:28
7."That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy"3:45
8."And She Would Darken the Memory"4:32
9."Cold Days from the Birdhouse"5:12
2020 Òran Mór - music from Live Performance Film
  • Released: 26 December 2020
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: DL
Recorded live in Òran Mor, a music venue in Glasgow that was formerly Kelvinside Parish Church, on 5. December 2020. for a film of the same name[17] and released as an album on band's bandcamp page.[18]
Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."3 Seconds Of Dead Air"5:13
2."Vtr"4:14
3."That Summer At Home, I Had Become The Invisible Boy"3:41
4."And She Would Darken The Memory"2:55
5."The Room"4:27
6."Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave"3:17
7."Sick"4:27
8."Alphabet"4:27
9."Keep It All to Myself"3:00
10."M"2:47
11."Last January"5:06

EPs[]

Year Title
2006 The Twilight Sad
  • Released: 14 November 2006
  • Label: Fat Cat (CDFAT056)
  • Formats: CD, DL
2008 Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did
  • Released: 9 June 2008
  • Label: Fat Cat (CDFAT078)
  • Formats: CD, 12", DL
2010 The Wrong Car
  • Released: 27 September 2010
  • Label: Fat Cat (12FAT079)
  • Formats: 12", DL
2012 N/O/C/E/K Tour EP
  • Released: 19 November 2012
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: CD-R
2014 Òran Mór Session
  • Released: 26 October 2014 (limited edition CD)
  • Reissued: 16 October 2015 (expanded CD & vinyl)
  • Label: Self-released; Fat Cat (FATCD140)
  • Formats: CD, 12", DL

Singles[]

Year Single Details Album
2007 "That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy"
  • Released: 16 April 2007
7" (7FAT29)
No.TitleLength
1."That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy"4:48
2."Watching That Chair Painted Yellow"5:31
Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
"And She Would Darken the Memory"
  • Released: 16 July 2007
7" (7FAT32)
No.TitleLength
1."And She Would Darken the Memory"5:49
2."That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy" (Decomposed by Ensemble)4:17
2009 "I Became a Prostitute"
  • Released: 3 August 2009
7" (7FAT67)
No.TitleLength
1."I Became a Prostitute"5:22
2."In the Blackout"5:15
Forget the Night Ahead
"Seven Years of Letters"
  • Released: 19 October 2009
7" (7FAT49)
No.TitleLength
1."Seven Years of Letters"4:34
2."Suck" (The Wedding Present cover)3:25
2010 "The Room"
  • Released: 5 April 2010
7" (7FAT74)
No.TitleLength
1."The Room"4:35
2."The Neighbours Can't Breathe" (Acoustic)3:55
2011 "Sick"
  • Released: 14 November 2011
7" (7FAT84)
No.TitleLength
1."Sick"4:23
2."Untitled No. 67" (Demo)3:50
No One Can Ever Know
2012 "Another Bed"
  • Released: 20 February 2012
7" (7FAT85)
No.TitleLength
1."Another Bed"4:39
2."A Million Ignorants"3:32
2013 The Twilight Sad vs. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat Split 7"[19]
  • Released: 20 April 2013
7" (7FAT124)
No.TitleLength
1."Alphabet" (covered by Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat)2:58
2."(If You) Keep Me in Your Heart" (covered by The Twilight Sad)3:16
Non-album single
2014 "Last January"
  • Released: 15 September 2014
Digital download
No.TitleLength
1."Last January"5:11
Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave
2015 "I Could Give You All That You Don't Want"
  • Released: 9 February 2015
7" (FAT143)
No.TitleLength
1."I Could Give You All That You Don't Want"4:17
2."The Airport"4:08
"It Never Was the Same"
  • Released: 29 June 2015
7" (7FAT148)
No.TitleLength
1."It Never Was the Same"5:00
2."There's a Girl in the Corner" (Robert Smith version)3:52
2018 "I/m Not Here [missing face]"
  • Released: 10 July 2018
Digital download (ROCKACT117D)
No.TitleLength
1."I/m Not Here [missing face]"5:38
It Won/t Be Like This All the Time
"Videograms"
  • Released: 26 October 2018
10" (etched/one-sided) (ROCKACT118T)
No.TitleLength
1."Videograms"4:56
"VTr"
  • Released: 13 November 2018
Digital download
No.TitleLength
1."VTr"4:19
2019 "Rats"/"Public Housing"
  • Released: 6 December 2019
7"(ROCKACT130S)
No.TitleLength
1."Rats"3:19
2."Public Housing"3:00
Non-album single

Music videos[]

Year Video Director Link
2007 "And She Would Darken the Memory" Mark Charlton YouTube
2009 "I Became a Prostitute" Paul Spencer YouTube
"Seven Years of Letters" Adam Stafford YouTube
2010 "The Room" Nicola Collins YouTube
"The Wrong Car" Nicola Collins YouTube
2012 "Another Bed" Craig Murray YouTube
"Dead City" Nicola Collins YouTube
2014 "Last January" Nicola Collins YouTube
2015 "I Could Give You All That You Don't Want" Nicola Collins YouTube
"It Never Was the Same" Hand Held Cine Club YouTube
2018 "I/m Not Here [missing face]" Brendan Jay Smith YouTube
2019 "VTr" Michael Sherrington YouTube
"Shooting Dennis Hopper Shooting" Brendan Jay Smith & Cameron Gleave YouTube

References[]

  1. ^ Hughes, Rich (24 October 2014). "Q&A: The Twilight Sad".
  2. ^ "Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters by The Twilight Sad". Metacritic. CNET Networks, Inc. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  3. ^ "Forget the Night Ahead by The Twilight Sad". Metacritic. CNET Networks, Inc. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  4. ^ "The Twilight Sad Set To Release New Album 'No One Can Ever Know' On 7 February, Playing SXSW". 14 November 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
  5. ^ a b "FATCAT RECORDS - NEWS". 29 January 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  6. ^ "Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave by The Twilight Sad". Metacritic. CNET Networks, Inc. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  7. ^ Lee, Ben (6 January 2015). "The Twilight Sad announce new single for February". Digital Spy. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
  8. ^ "It Never Was The Same - Vinyl Delay". 11 June 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  9. ^ "The Twilight Sad - News - New Single It Never Was The Same". 7 April 2015. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  10. ^ "The Twilight Sad sign to Rock Action, announce new single and tour". 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  11. ^ "It Won't Be Like This All the Time by The Twilight Sad". Metacritic. CNET Networks, Inc. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  12. ^ Peaks in Scotland:
  13. ^ "Twilight Sad | full Official Chart history". OfficialCharts.com. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  14. ^ "Billboard.biz search". Billboard.
  15. ^ "Radio-Active Records: Record Store Day 2011 Pre-Orders Part 1". 25 February 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  16. ^ "FatCat Records - News: The Twilight Sad - Remix Album And Tour Dates". Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  17. ^ @thetwilightsad (26 December 2020). "Today we are pleased to make the Òran Mor Performance Film available for a limited time. Previous ticket holders wi…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  18. ^ "Oran Mor 2020, by the Twilight Sad".
  19. ^ "FATCAT RECORDS - NEWS - Record Store Day 2013". 20 March 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
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