Debi Del Grande
The Twilight Sad are back today with two new songs entitled Rats and Public Housing.
It’s a swift response from the band to their excellent fifth album It Won/t Be Like This All The Time, released earlier this year, Rats revealed by Andy MacFarlane to have been one of the first demos which shaped the direction of that record. “We were trying to capture more of the chaotic live sound of the band and condense it into three minutes,” he continued.
“As the recording process progressed, we could tell that these two songs were a little different from the rest of the album,” frontman James Graham added. “To me they felt heavier and lyrically they came from a place of complete despair.”
“They started to stand out on their own separately from the album. They were songs we really liked and they weren’t just off cuts from the album either – we wanted them to stand on their own.”
“So we felt like a 7” double A side single was the release the songs deserved. The two songs feel linked to me, one has no hope and the other is reaching out looking for some good in people/myself/the world.”