The Twilight Sad
No One Can Ever Know (2022 fat cat repress)
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The Twilight Sad’s third full-length marked a sonic shift for the band.
Freshly inspired by a listening diet of Cabaret Voltaire, Can, Liars, Magazine, Autechre, and Public Image Limited, the band turn to a dark, synth-heavy sound for No One Can Ever Know; the resulting LP shares thematic and sonic space with the most innovative offerings from Depeche Mode, The Cure, or even Nine Inch Nails. “We wanted to be a lot more spontaneous, get outside our comfort zone - not to fall back into repeating what we’ve done previously,” explains guitarist Andy MacFarlane. “So we moved to London for a month to record at The Pool and got Andrew Weatherall involved to bounce ideas off and to generally reassure us of the direction we were already progressing in – toward a sparser sound, with a colder, slightly militant feel.”

Tracklist
- Alphabet
- Dead City
- Sick
- Don’t Move
- Nil
- Don’t Look at Me
- Not Sleeping
- Another Bed
- Kill It in The Morning