Some time back, JosefK suggested I try this band and this song. To be fair, he may have meant the whole album, as this is the title track of same, but I'm not quite ready to leap into that yet, so let's just do that title track and see if he is on to something.
Title: Fourteen autumns and fifteen winters
Format: Track
Written by: Andy MacFarlane and James Graham
Performed by: The Twilight Sad
Genre: Post-Punk, Indie, Shoegaze
Taken from: The Twilight Sad album of the same name
Year: 2007
Acclaim: Again, although the album was feted I don't see anything about this particular track. It must be popular though, because when I typed in “The Twilight Sad” to YouTube it was the first result to come up.
Sounds like a steam train or something at the start, which sets up a nice ambience, then the guitars come in kind of slowly, coming and going, staggered and rising then falling back. Reminds me a little of what I heard of British Sea Power. Think it may be an instrumental. Very ... what's the word ... ethereal. Yeah. Ethereal. Very ethereal. Gives you a kind of surreal feel, as if your'e not quite sure what's going on but are enjoying it anyway. Some sort of familiar melody sliding in and out there, though I can't quite pin it down. Think it may be “Spanish eyes”, would you believe? Now it's fading out with a kind of swishing motion. Hey, that was really pretty nice.
Things I like about this : The ambience, the mood set, the way the instruments are used and the way there kind of is no real melody; there is, but it's fragmented and never fully developed, which actually plays to the track's strengths.
Things I don't like about this: Not really anything. Very impressed.
Rating: 