Video: The Twilight Sad - Cold Days from the Birdhouse (Live on KEXP)

A man of my rapidly advancing years will, on his fourth consecutive night out (following on from, in order, Laura Veirs , football, stupid beer drinking), find himself feeling somewhat jaded. What better way of keeping awake than going to watch two of the finest purveyors of awfully loud Scottish post-indie-rock, Mogwai and The Twilight Sad? A more appropriate pairing of main act and support it would be harder to find; The Twilight Sad can safely be called "Mogwai Meets The Proclaimers" 1 , and have namechecked Mogwai in interviews and CD sleeves as not only a [...]

• Mogwai - San Pedro

Since seeing them in Tucson last week, I have been devouring all things by The Twilight Sad , whose stunning new album, Forget the Night Ahead , possesses all the emotion and feeling sorely lacking in a mostly underwhelming year marked by dull synth-pop and a hyped-up lo-fi scrap heap. I was distressed that it took until almost October for a true album-of-the-year contender to reveal itself to me. Phoenix's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix ; Neko Case's Middle Cyclone ; The Cave Singers' Welcome Joy and Mos Def's The Ecstatic [...]