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DOWNLOAD: The Twilight Sad - Reflection Of The Television

Posted May 21, 2009 6:48 AM by Kev Kharas

Tags: indie-rock

Full of ominous guitar angst and Scotch brood, this new track from The Twilight Sad finds James Graham sounding like the survivor of his own personal war, love's shrapnel flying all about him as the explosions retreat into the distance. Does that sound histrionic? Of couse it does, but it suits this Glaswegian quartet. Not for nothing are the frequent comparisons to The Smiths, whose down-eyed melodrama is similarly affecting and always utterly convincing. Graham always seems like he's grappling with something profound in its weight, but he always seems calm while doing so, jumping not to grand metaphors or delirious screaming - instead, his psychopathic cool while the noise flares all around helps imbue a sentence as innocuous as "there's people downstairs" with ridiculous foreboding. Climb aboard the doom train but don't blame anyone but yourself when it explodes. 

Sounds Like: Mogwai, Idlewild, Nirvana

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