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Considering some of their earliest touring experiences, maybe it’s not so surprising that he had to warm up to it. Like the Twilight Sad’s first tour of America, which they did in 2006 while they were mixing their first record, Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters, in Connecticut.
“We hadn’t even played Edinborgouh yet. We’d only played two shows in Scotland ever, and we were touring America. It was getting thrown into the deep end, if you know what I mean. We had to learn pretty quickly,” he says with a laugh. “People in Scotland didn’t know who we were, but we were playing in front of important music people in New York.”
The new record is their most intense yet; even for a band known for living up to their name, it’s pretty dark.
“It’s not a happy album,” agrees Graham. “It’s pretty bleak.”
And yet the New Wave and industrial influences the band has opened itself up to has made it their most propulsive and engaging album yet. There’s an electricity that runs underneath songs like “Sick” and “Kill It In the Morning,” and both critics and audiences are responding to it.
.Interview: Scotland's The Twilight Sad Talks Visa Troubles, New Record and U.S. Tour
