THE TWILIGHT SAD – return with Òran Mór Session LP; available from October 16th

THE TWILIGHT SAD - return with Òran Mór Session LP; available from October 16th

This October, almost a year since the release of their acclaimed fourth album Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants To Leave, Scotland’s The Twilight Sad return with the Òran Mór Session LP: a collection of reworked, stripped-back versions of tracks from the album, b-sides and a cover of Arthur Russell’s ‘I Couldn’t Say It To Your Face’. The sessions are available from October 16th, 2015, on CD, vinyl and digital download.

Recorded in Glasgow’s Òran Mór auditorium, a popular arts and entertainment spot in the west of the city, away from the boozier throes of the venue’s lower levels, the set was initially released – in abridged form as an EP – to coincide with the band’s late 2014 and early 2015 tour dates. Now with an assortment of additional tracks, the band are proud to give the sessions a wider physical release for the first time via their longterm home FatCat Records.

The sessions act as something of a means to recap and reflect on what’s been a whirlwind past year for the band, with Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants To Leave earning rave reviews from publications including The Sunday Times, The Quietus and Q, alongside topping Drowned in Sound’s best albums of 2014 and earning a rare perfect ten from the site, finishing second in The Skinny’s list, third in Popmatters’ indie rock albums of the year and topping Any Decent Music’s Scottish albums of the year.

Here, we see the skeletons of the songs that comprised the bulk of Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants To Leave presented as they were initially composed: stark, unadorned and with their melodies laid open and their meanings made clear; a chance to hear another side to these newest additions to the band’s repertoire but also to revisit what made the originals so special in the first place.

UK Live Dates:
Dec 9th, 2015 – Academy 2, Birmingham (Tickets on sale Weds Oct 10th)
Dec 10th, 2015 – Gorilla, Manchester (Tickets on sale Weds Oct 10th)
Dec 12th, 2015 – Barrowlands, Glasgow

The Twilight Sad – Òran Mór Session Track list

1. Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants To Leave
2. Last January
3. It Never Was the Same
4. Pills I Swallow
5. I Could Give You All That You Don’t Want
6. Drown So I Can Watch
7. The Airport
8. Leave the House
9. I Couldn’t Say It To Your Face

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