Just wanted to add: tune in next week for a report on the AMAZING Twilight Sad/Micah P Hinson double bill happening at the Doug Fir on Sunday, March 11th. Ol' Dougie's been hosting some fine nights out lately, as evidenced by this blog's posts, but this coming show, THIS show, will be hard to beat this month, and possibly this whole year. Twilight Sad are a Scottish band..oh, here, let Wiki tell their story:
The Twilight Sad are an indie rock band from Kilsyth, Scotland, comprising James Graham (vocals), Andy MacFarlane (guitar), and Mark Devine (drums). The band are currently signed to Fat Cat Records and have released three full-length albums, as well as several EPs and singles. Their 2007 debut album, Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters, drew widespread critical acclaim, noted by Graham's thick Scottish accent and MacFarlane's dense sonic walls of shoegazing
guitar and wheezing accordion. The Twilight Sad's notoriously loud live
performances have been described as "completely ear-splitting, and the band toured for the album across Europe and the United States
throughout 2007 and 2008. Sessions inspired by stripped-down and
reworked live performances yielded the 2008 mini-album, Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did.
Their second album, Forget the Night Ahead, marked a shift in the band's direction; lyrically more personal and musically darker and more streamlined, it was released in 2009 to further acclaim. Recording sessions for the album also produced the mid-2010 release The Wrong Car, which followed the departure of founding bassist Craig Orzel in February 2010. The Twilight Sad's third 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. The band describes their sound as "folk with layers of noise," and music critics have described the band as "perennially unhappy" and "a band that inject some real emotion and dynamic excitement into a comparatively standard template."
Combine this with Micah P Hinson, the legendary (& still young, just 31 years old) Texas songwriter that has thus far produced six albums of emotion-shredding genius (not a gratuitous use of that word) packed with songs that hang in your limbic system like brilliant, bruised friends that inspire empathy and scorn in equal measure. Very few songwriters limn the sinuous border that separates regret and defiance better than Mr Hinson.
I said it last week, I'll say it again: this is NOT a show to be missed. I wasn't wrong last week (I mean, just check out that post re: Elliott BROOD) and I won't be wrong this week. Again, this show is at the Doug Fir on Sunday, March 11th. Not only will you not regret it, you'll be so thrilled you went you'll never doubt another word I say. See you there...
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