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As the sun sets and the gloom rolls in, many a metropolis around the U.S. and UK will at least have the Twilight Sad to look forward to. Right now, as your teary eyes read this, the Glasgow upstarts are out there, touring the land in spite of all the melancholy.

The emo-gazers extraordinaire pulled the rugs out from under us (in a very good way) on their 2007 FatCat full length debut, Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters. They hit the road in support of that fine collection of sounds and a new single as well. Seven-inch "And She Would Darken the Memory" arrives July 2 in the UK via FatCat, and includes a remix of "That Summer, At Home Etc. Etc." by labelmate Ensemble on the flip.

The Twilight's travels, meanwhile, take them across the UK, to a few European mainland fests, and on a Stateside joyride-- destination: Pitchfork Music Festival 2007. But wait, what's this? The Twilight Sad's calendar indicates they're attending a Cubs game on July 15, aka the final day of the festival. Ditching De La Soul for the Cubs? Now that's sad.

"And She Would Darken the Memory":

01 And She Would Darken the Memory
02 That Summer, At Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy (Ensemble Remix)

Twilight Sad:

06-08 Coventry, England - Taylor John's House
06-09 Brighton, England - Hector's House *
06-14 Glasgow, Scotland - Oran Mor (West End Festival)
06-20 Aberdeen, Scotland - Tunnels #
06-28 London, England - O2 Arena ^
07-06 London, England - Bosh @ Old Blue Last
07-07 Manchester, England - The Garden Hotel
07-08 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
07-13 Madison, Wisconsin - Terrace
07-14 Chicago, IL - Union Park (Pitchfork Music Festival) $
07-17 Baltimore, MD - Sonar
07-18 Allston, MA - Great Scott
07-19 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
07-20 New London, CT - The Oasis
07-21 New York, NY - Coney Island (Siren Festival)
08-05 Glasgow, Scotland - Hey You Get Off My Pavement Festival
08-07 Olso, Norway - John Dee (Øya Festival)
08-16 Aarhus, Denmark - Pop Revo
08-19 Edinburgh, Scotland - Bannermans
09-15 Salisbury, England - Larmer Tree Gardens (End of the Road Festival)

* with Zettasaur
# with Household
^ with Snow Patrol
$ with Yoko Ono, Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues, Clipse, Mastodon, Iron and Wine, Girl Talk, Grizzly Bear, Voxtrot, Battles, Califone, Fujiya & Miyagi, Oxford Collapse, Dan Deacon, Beach House, William Parker Quartet, Professor Murder, Ken Vandermark's Powerhouse Sound