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Forget The Night Ahead

The Twilight Sad

Forget The Night Ahead

Follow up to the critically acclaimed 2007 debut Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters from the Scottish indie rock outfit

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6.6

Label
FatCat
UK Release date
22/09/2009
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  1. 8.0 |   Observer Music Monthly

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  2. 8.0 |   Mojo

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  3. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    This is certainly a strong follow up from The Twilight Sad that, if nothing more, proves that their first album was far from a fluke
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  4. 8.0 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    As summer fades out, and the pop-punk and indie-pop you were listening to takes a back seat to more introspective, contemplative soundscapes, there is genuinely no better soundtrack than Forget The Night Ahead
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  5. 7.3 |   Pitchfork

    This band's tempest of meat-slap drums and fire-engine-from-hell distortion makes the mind go to disturbing places with very little provocation.
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  6. 7.0 |   NME

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  7. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Having set ridiculously high standards in the past … Forget The Night Ahead hovers above the line marked average rather than the higher echelons of greatness its creators undoubtedly strove to achieve.
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  8. 6.0 |   Q

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  9. 6.0 |   Clash

    Not the album that will see The Twilight Sad fulfil their artistic potential, though, vitally, it provides enough to suggest that record cannot be far away.
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  10. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    The tempestuous atmosphere is too imposing not to impress; and yet, this isn't an entirely satisfactory album.
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  11. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    Likeable, certainly – but not for everyone
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  12. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    The guys know their sound, and shift enough so you don’t think feel they’ve made the same album twice. And “I Became a Prostitute” is as bracing a rock song as you’re apt to hear this fall, but the record as a whole comes off as smaller than its best parts
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  13. 6.0 |   No Ripcord

    The distortion and feedback here often weigh the songs down and such dark, oblique lyrical content needs a little breathing space sometimes
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  14. 6.0 |   Uncut

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  15. 5.0 |   Spin

    Moments of transcendence occasionally emerge from the murk, but not often enough
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