So, in the process of trying to get all my marbles together to write my year-end best albums of 2008 post, I just ran into too many troubles trying to make it as cool as I wanted to. I’ve decided to leave this silly wordpress.com url and invest a little bit of money into some hosting and a URL of my very own. I decided a Best of 2008 post was a better way to start a new blog than to end a failed one. So if anyone out there enjoys what they saw on this site, stay tuned and within a couple weeks (probly sooner) I’ll link this site to the new and improved one.

So, for now, I’ll continue to post this and that, mostly trying to avoid tracks that you might see on my best of 2008 list. This track is from a Scottish band, and (I mean this in the best way possible) you can definitely hear it. Their called The Twilight Sad, and they can put together one hell of an emotionally gut-wrenching song. The great thing, though, is that even though this is probably one of the most depressing albums I’ve heard in recent years, it’s not emo. These guys are extremely talented musicians and make great post-rock/indie songs with some great shoegaze elements as well. The singer is heartbreakingly sincere, but he’s very conservative in the emotion he shows, which makes it all the more effective as a tool in the music. This track is from the 2007 album, Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters.

And did I mention, this is also one of my favorite album covers of all time. The same artist did the cover for their EP, Here, it Never Snowed. But Afterwards It Did. Which is also very cool, like another page in the saga.

Anyways, heres the track.

The Twilight Sad – Cold Days from the Birdhouse