The Twilight Sad – I Became A Prostitute

Anyone worried that The Twilight Sad might have lost some of their feral power in the two years since Fourteen Autumns would have been partly reassured by the climactic yet controlled bombast of comeback single Reflection of the Television. On I Became A Prostitute, however, they let their bilious aggression out of its cage to roam free. While guitarist Andy MacFarlane is still bashing his tremolo arm to discordant effect, his flattened tuning gives the song a weird, unsettling sensation, and James Graham doesn’t lighten matters by calmly offering to “bleed you dry”. Dark, brilliant and still very much untamed. [Nick Mitchell]