New Music Friday: The Twilight Sad, Steve Mason

The Twilight Sad and Steve Mason are two obvious standouts of the first major New Music Friday of the year. Have a listen to both on Live4ever via Spotify.

It Won/t Be Like This All The Time comes after ‘a Field Of Dreams style catharsis’ for singer James Graham according to Live4ever’s review, who ‘had a vision of a Twilight Sad no longer constrained by its previously narrow horizons’. “Drawing on a fresh intent to discover their own version of ‘Hugeness’, it continues, “It Won/t Be Like This All The Time is a brave attempt at making a connection with a far broader audience than that of their past.”

“Mass consumption is a double-edged sword to be sure; the gift of being on a plane many can identify with whilst still retaining an aura of mystique is one their mentors have practiced from The Top onwards.”

Steve Mason has also chased something new on his own latest record About The Light, drawing much more heavily on his live band and performances to produce a ‘a less-is-more looseness in the studio that’s brought the whole package closer to the experience of Mason’s unmissable shows‘:

“Put into practice on opener America Is Your Boyfriend, the effect is to southern-fry some of his restraint, the song an establishment rattling sermon that holds little back courtesy of some tootling brass, rocked out slide guitar and a large dash of blue-eyed soul.”