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Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters: apart from being a damn long time, a mouthful to say, and a, um, fingerful to type, that's also the title of the debut full-length album from emotive Glasgow quartet the Twilight Sad. FatCat lifts the curtain on the nine-track release-- which follows up last fall's excellent self-titled EP-- on April 24.

The fresh-faced, thick-accented foursome recorded Fourteen Autumns at their home city's Chem 19 and Ca Va studios, and mixed the opus at Connecticut's Tarquin Studios with Peter Katis (Interpol, Spoon). It includes a trio of tunes from the EP, and six new epics. Pretty much all of them have totally emo titles, so start naming your blogs after them now, kids.

The Twilight Sad had better perk up, however, because they have quite a long tour road ahead of them. They'll sweep through the UK with Micah P. Hinson before crossing the pond for SXSW and a stretch of subsequent dates with Mary Timony, and later, fellow Glaswegians Aereogramme and Canada's A Northern Chorus. Adorably enough, they play both Birmingham, Alabama, and Birmingham, England on this tour.

Finally, don't miss the Twilight Sad's contribution to FatCat labelmates Semiconductor's forthcoming DVD, Worlds in Flux. The disc hits U.S. shops April 3 (February 26 everywhere else), and includes the Sad's score to some Semiconductor animation, alongside specially-comissioned scores from Max Richter, Ensemble, Christian Vogel, Our Brother the Native, and more.

Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters:

01 Cold Days From the Birdhouse
02 That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy
03 Walking for Two Hours
04 Last Year's Rain Didn't Fall Quite So Hard
05 Talking With Fireworks / Here, It Never Snowed
06 Mapped by What Surrounded Them
07 And She Would Darken the Memory
08 I'm Taking the Train Home
09 Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters

Twilight tour:

02-08 London, England - Bush Hall $~
02-09 Brighton, England - Wardrobe $
02-13 Bristol, England - Thelka Social +
02-14 Birmingham, England - The Glee Club +
02-15 Liverpool, England - Korova Bar +
02-16 Leeds, England - Holy Trinity Church +
02-18 London, England - Union Chapel +
02-19 Brighton, England - The Audio +
02-21 Glasgow, Scotland - Barfly !
02-26 Glasgow, Scotland - King Tut's Wah-Wah Hut @
03-14 Austin, TX - Emo's Annex (SXSW)
03-15 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-16 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-17 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-18 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-19 Birmingham, AL - The Bottletree Lounge *
03-20 Mt. Pleasant, SC - Village Tavern *
03-21 Raleigh, NC - King's Lounge *
03-22 Norfolk, VA - The Boot
03-23 Washington, DC - Black Cat *#
04-01 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's ^%
04-02 New York, NY - Knitting Factory ^%
04-03 Brooklyn, NY - Luna Lounge ^%
04-04 Cambridge, MA - The Middle East ^%
04-05 Montreal, Quebec - Main Hall ^%
04-09 Chicago, IL - Subterranean ^%
04-13 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Cafe ^%
04-16 San Francisco, CA - The Independent ^%
04-18 Los Angeles, CA - Knitting Factory ^%

$ with Frightened Rabbit
~ with Nina Nastasia
+ with Micah P. Hinson
! with Troubles (ex-Hope of the States)
@ with Errors
* with Mary Timony
# with Battles
^ with Aereogramme
% with A Northern Chorus