Videograms

Ordinary life changes rapidly in pandemic times. You can't avoid the mass of news about the Corona virus and it seems that we all have no other themes than this. We couldn't imagine a public lockdown but since yesterday all shops are closed except super markets, pharmacies and a few restaurants. In super markets you can't buy any tinned food and toilet tissues because of too many panic buying. I don't know if it the same elsewhere but I would buy another good bottle of gin. In Germany we wait that the government will conclude a curfew for the next weeks. Then the social life is over as we knew it. I am not afraid of the virus but what makes me angry is that maybe a lot of people will die because public health was ruined by our governments. The good thing in these times is that I can slow down my life and sit at home listening to music I wanted to listen to for longer times again. A few days ago I listened to It Won't Be Like This All The Time the last album by Glasgow's The Twilight Sad from 2018. It is still a record that works to almost every time.

The Twilight Sad - Videograms

While I listened to this song I remembered that Andrew Weatherall did a fine remix of that.

The Twilight Sad - Videograms (Andrew Weatherall remix)

It Won't Be Like This All The Time

These days I got the news that North Lanarkshire band The Twilight Sad released their fifth album It Won't Be Like This All The Time. I discovered them six years ago when they released their third album No One Can Ever Know when Andrew Weatherall assisted producing the album. Their first albums weren't bad but they didn't fascinated me much because they hadn't found their own style and sounded just like another indie-band at these days. I like their later records because the songs and the sound were more attractive to me. There is nothing really new in their sound but a bit more impassioned. They still have throbbing basslines their epic post-punk stretches from The Cure to The Chameleons to White Lies. All in all a record I will listen to several times the next weeks. And I am proud to say to meet James in November at Simply Thrilled. Looking forward to see them in June.

Scattered Ashes

Minor Victories released new songs these days from their coming first record. They are a collaboration of members of Slowdive, Mogwai and Editors. The vocals on Scattered Ashes were by James Graham of The Twilight Sad. Many call the an independent supergroup but for me it is just another charming band playing frisky songs. Some ethereous  but always with a reluctant guitars. I really like the choir and the strings on this record.