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10.0
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10.0 |
The Skinny
Almost twenty years after their debut album, IT'S THE LONG GOODBYE reveals the subtle evolution of indie veterans The Twilight Sad
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9.0
144069
9.0 |
XS Noize
Six albums in, they’ve delivered something that feels both intensely personal and completely universal. It’s The Long Goodbye doesn’t try to dress anything up or soften the edges. It sits with the reality of loss and lets it unfold in its own time
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9.0
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9.0 |
All Music
A fiercely beautiful tribute to a life and the love left behind
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9.0
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9.0 |
God Is In The TV
It’s The Long Goodbye isn’t simply a ‘return to form’, but a moment of recognition. A band, standing in the present, glancing backwards through nearly twenty years of noise and tenderness, and realising that the things which once defined them still carry the same force now
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9.0
144105
9.0 |
No Ripcord
IT’S THE LONG GOODBYE is anthemic to its core, to such a degree that it practically oozes it, but it also carries more nuance than it lets on
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9.0
144108
9.0 |
Clash
An album that pulls no punches. Its painstakingly bleak, delivered with a winning combination of vulnerability and customary explosivity. A powerful and truly wonderful return from The Twilight Sad
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9.0
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9.0 |
Under The Radar
An astonishing body of work that firmly emphasizes what an important band The Twilight Sad are. This might just be the band’s masterpiece
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9.0
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9.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
It’s an album whose memory is firmly planted in this world forever, and one that will haunt you long after it’s done
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8.5
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8.5 |
Spectrum Culture
A return to form that feels like a punch in the stomach by a band that has never been a walk in the park
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8.0
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8.0 |
Mojo
The Twilight Sad’s first album since reducing to founding duo James Graham and Andy MacFarlane yields the most powerful version of the band’s cathartic soundworld. Print edition only
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8.0
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8.0 |
Record Collector
It’s an album which is largely turned up to 11, emotionally and sonically
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8.0
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8.0 |
PopMatters
After a long hiatus, the Twilight Sad return with a new lineup to deliver raw emotion centered on James Graham’s mental health struggles and his mother’s death
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7.3
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7.3 |
Pitchfork
No stranger to melancholy, the Scottish duo grapples more vigorously with grief than ever on an album shadowed by loss, soaked in guitars, and assisted by the Cure’s Robert Smith
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7.0
144058
7.0 |
Uncut
It's a record that walks a fine line between joy and sorrow. Print edition only
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