It Won/t Be Like This All the Time is another dauntless step forward, unflinchingly embracing the core aspects of their sound, while boldly incorporating loftier ideas.
It seems unfair to describe this as The Twilight Sad’s masterpiece as, truth be told, they haven’t made a bad record in their career – but this certainly feels like a ‘moment’, the time where they step up and deliver a truly special album.
On the band’s fifth studio album It Won/t Be Like This All the Time, The Twilight Sad continue to plough the same furrow as on their previous albums, yet with a little more urgency, consistency and richness that some of their earlier work lacked.
With more bombast than ever before, an added sheen of guitar noise and extra attention directed towards huge choruses does wonders for The Twilight Sad, who after five albums across 12 years, finally found a way to largely channel the misery and gloom they’ve long become associated with into something more hopeful and, dare I say, fun.
If you think The Cure are a good thing, and ever find yourself hankering after the cold tension of Faith or the sweeping cinematic grandeur of Disintegration, then there’s a lot in It Won/t Be Like This All The Time that you will want to find time for, even if it’s a record understandably prone to stand or fall on that basis.
As it acknowledges current hardships and allow the tiniest glimmer of hope for tomorrow, It Won't Be Like This All the Time proves the Twilight Sad are making some of their most vital music more than a decade into their career.
It Won’t Be Like This All the Time is a deeply inventive album from a deeply engaging, entertaining and original band. Though their sound is a nod to the past, the Twilight Sad might just inspire its own new crop of imitators.
‘It Won/t Be Like This All The Time’ ... finds them sonically expanding into an all-encompassing world of sound that’s as equally intense as it is devastatingly raw.
Sad Irish man talks about separation anxiety
MAN, I am honestly so surprised I did not review this album already...... It is definitely one that I keep coming back to almost lately, something struck with it recently I guess.
Not to overshare, but these past 3 years have been some of the most mind-boggling and confusing times i've had and I honestly use this time to just come back to records that help me with all of it. This record speaks about everything from trust issues to unrequited love ... read more
As someone with a strange love for Scottish accents (blame Trainspotting) and indie rock, this was very enjoyable.
Favorite Tracks: Shooting Dennis Hopper Shooting, VTr, I/m Not Here [missing face], Auge/Maschine, Let/s Get Lost, Videograms.
Least Favorite Track: The Arbor
1 | [10 Good Reasons for Modern Drugs] 4:08 | 76 |
2 | Shooting Dennis Hopper Shooting 3:24 | 74 |
3 | The Arbor 4:19 | 71 |
4 | VTr 4:16 | 78 |
5 | Sunday Day13 3:33 | 59 |
6 | I/m Not Here [missing face] 5:38 | 81 |
7 | Auge/Maschine 4:41 | 69 |
8 | Keep It All to Myself 3:01 | 68 |
9 | Girl Chewing Gum 4:03 | 70 |
10 | Let/s Get Lost 4:40 | 77 |
11 | Videograms 4:55 | 71 |
#16 | / | No Ripcord |
#17 | / | Under the Radar |
#25 | / | musicOMH |
#39 | / | Rough Trade |
#48 | / | PopMatters |