Maybe it’s just a plot to keep American indie kids from getting even more depressed, but Scottish shoegazers the Twilight Sad had a hell of a time getting visas for their new U.S. tour, which comes to the Blank Club in San Jose on Wednesday, March 7. Things got so bad that the band had to cancel its first scheduled shows on the East Coast this week.
However, the rest of the tour—including the Blank Club date—looks to be locked in. The band didn’t say what caused the delay in processing their visas, but at least the darker, industrial-inspired songs on the new album No One Can Ever Know will give them a little release.
The popular Glasgow indie rockers are best known for their 2007 debut album, Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters. Loud—like, My Bloody Valentine loud—in concert and packing interesting lyrics into songs like “That Summer, At Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy” (Stand By Me reference), the band was never a load of chuckles. But they’ve gotten increasingly dark in the five years since, on 2009’s Forget the Night Ahead, and now on the new record, which was released this month.
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.Despite Visa Problems, The Twilight Sad’s San Jose Show Still On
