The Twilight Sad have shared “Videograms”, the closing track from their upcoming album “IT WON/T BE LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME” which is due out January 18th 2019 via Rock Action Records, a label created by the band Mogwai.
The single is the follow up to “I/m Not Here [Missing Face]” which was released back in July.
In a statement released announcing the album and the single, lead singer James Graham has said “Videograms’ was the first song written for the album but the last song finished before we went in to record. It’s one of the most melodic things we’ve done. Since writing the song I’ve heard the phrase “don’t you start on me” whilst walking down the street, in the supermarket, in the pub. It must have been something that I’d heard a lot that stuck with me and came out in this song.”
“I quite like that it’s the first official single yet it’s the last song on the album. There’s sometimes pressure to front-load an album with the singles as it’s assumed that people don’t have the attention span to listen to a full record, but people that know us and like our music know that we make albums that should be listened to all the way through as every song is a chapter in the overall story of it. It’s also why I love Rock Action as there was no pressure from them, they let us do what we wanted with the track list.”
The band have approached this album differently than the others and this time they have brought on board long-term touring members Brendan Smith and Johnny Docher into the fold properly. Speaking of the decision Graham stated:
“I’ve always seen Brendan and Johnny as part of the band and it’s time to say that aloud,” Graham said in a press release on Wednesday. “From the actual coming together of the demos to recording the final versions of these songs has probably been one of my favourite experiences of being in the band. All four of us were throwing ideas in, whereas before Andy had mapped it all out. Once he got past the point of making the demos his point of view was ‘we need to make these even better. These need to take a step up from where they are’. He opened the floor to everybody.”
Check out the official audio stream of Videograms below
You can catch The Twilight Sad live as they head out on a tour later in the year reaching America, Canada, Europe and a couple of shows in the UK and Scotland:
Oct 9th – Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour
Oct 10th – San Diego, CA – Casbah
Oct 12th – Tustin, CA – Marty’s On Newport
Oct 14th – San Francisco, CA – Independent
Oct 17th – Portland, OR – Doug Fir
Oct 19th – Seattle, WA – Crocodile
Oct 20th – Vancouver, BC – Fox
Oct 25th – St. Paul, MN – Turf Club
Oct 26th – Chicago, IL – Theater on the Lake
Oct 27th – Toronto, ON – Velvet Underground
Oct 28th – Montreal, QC – Ritz
Oct 30th – Boston, MA – Middle East Downstairs
Oct 31st – Kingston, NY – BSP Lounge
Nov 1st – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere
Nov 2nd – Philadelphia, PA – Boot & Saddle
Nov 3rd – Washington, DC – U Street Music Hall
Nov 10th – Paris, FR – Point FMR
Nov 11th – Wiesbaden, DE – Sclachthof
Nov 12th – Munich, DE – Ampere
Nov 13th – Vienna, AT – Chelsea
Nov 15th – Berlin, DE – Musik & Frieden
Nov 16th – Hamburg, DE – Molotow
Nov 17th – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
Nov 18th – Brussels, BE – Botanique
Nov 27th – London, UK – Bush Hall
Nov 29th – Edinburgh, UK – Liquid Rooms
