While working on their upcoming fourth album, Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants To Leave, The Twilight Sad made sure to revisit their roots — literally. To draw inspiration from their back catalog, as well as their early years as a group, they returned to the small Scottish town where they wrote much of their debut album, 2007’s Fourteen Albums and Fifteen Winters.
Frontman James Graham explained in a press release: “We spent a lot of time at home when writing this new record, we got to hang out with old friends and get back to some sort of normality, which I think really helped me clear my mind and focus in on writing these new songs. I had a lot I wanted to get off my chest and I’ve done that with this new record.”
“Last January”, The Twilight Sad’s latest single, captures the album’s theme of “small town weirdness and romance” with a post-punk gusto that hits hard sonically while tugging at the ol’ heartstrings.
Listen in below.
Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants To Leave hits shelves on October 28th via FatCat Records. Also check out lead single “There’s A Girl In The Corner”.
In support of the new LP, the band will tour the UK and North America this fall. Consult their full itinerary below.
The Twilight Sad 2014 Tour Dates:
10/05 – Manchester, UK @ Soup Kitchen
10/06 – London, UK @ Boston Music Rooms
10/07 – Nottingham, UK @ Bodega
10/09 – Edinburgh, UK @ Pleasance
10/16 – Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade
10/17 – Portland, ME @ Port City Music Hall
10/18 – Montreal, QC @ Il Motore
10/19 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre
10/20 – Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick
10/23 – Cincinnati, OH @ The Woodward Theater
10/24 – Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre
10/26 – St. Louis, MO @ The Old Rock House
10/28 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
10/29 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
10/30 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory Concert House
11/01 – Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s
11/02 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
11/04 – San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo’s 365 Club
11/07 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre
11/08 – San Diego, CA @ Irenic
11/09 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Crescent Ballroom
11/11 – Austin, TX @ The Mohawk
11/12 – Dallas, TX @ Trees
11/13 – Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s
11/14 – New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks
11/15 – Birmingham, LA @ WorkPlay Theatre
11/16 – Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
11/18 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
11/19 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
11/20 – Boston, MA @ Paradise
11/21 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
11/22 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
