The Twilight Sad top Scottish Blogs and Music Sites ‘Album of 2014’ poll
Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave by The Twilight Sad has been named as Scotland’s bloggers and music writers’ favourite album of 2014 after topping the annual BAMS poll.
More than thirty-five critics, writers and publications named their top ten albums from last year, with the fourth LP from James Graham and co beating Mogwai’s Rave Tapes and Strange Friend by The Phantom Band to the top spot.
Accepting the BAMS award for Nobody Wants to be Here..., Graham remarked: “I don’t want to be melodramatic and say it’s saved the band, but it kind of has in a way. When you release something you don’t really know [how it will be received]. You can like it as much as you want, but ultimately in the long run, people have got to like it to have any sort of success or be able to make another one.
“So to be voted number one for the BAMS is pretty mental for a miserable bunch of guys from Kilsyth. It’s great though. We really appreciate it, and things like this don’t happen to us all the time, so it’s really cool.”
The Twilight Sad are the sixth winners of the award, with Chvrches’ debut LP The Bones of What You Believe winning the prize in 2013. Meursault, Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat, The National and The Phantom Band have also won the award since its inception in 2009.
Here's a sparse rendition of the band's forthcoming single, I Could Give You All That You Don't Want, filmed at their Pleasance Session in Edinburgh last autumn.
The BAMS top 30 in full:
1. The Twilight Sad – Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave
2. Mogwai – Rave Tapes
3. The Phantom Band – Strange Friend
4. Withered Hand – New Gods
5. Honeyblood – Honeyblood
6. Young Fathers – DEAD
7. Jonnie Common – Trapped in Amber
8. St Vincent – St Vincent
9. Caribou – Our Love
10. The Amazing Snakeheads – Amphetamine Ballads
11. The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
12. King Creosote – From Scotland with Love
13. Bastard Mountain – Farewell, Bastard Mountain
14. We Were Promised Jetpacks – Unravelling
15. Fatherson – I Am An Island
16. PAWS – Youth Culture Forever
17. Randolph's Leap – Clumsy Knot
18. Stanley Odd – A Thing Brand New
19. Call To Mind – The Winter Is White
20. Swans – To Be Kind
21. Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 2
22. Machines In Heaven – bordersbreakdown
23. Ought – More Than Any Other Day
24. Last Battle – Lay Your Burden Down
25. Sun Kil Moon – Benji
26. Aphex Twin – Syro
27. Beerjacket – Darling Darkness
28. Martha – Courting Strong
29. Taylor Swift – 1989
30. Warpaint – Warpaint