The Edinburgh indie faithful descended on the colourful environs of Electric Circus last Sunday evening, lured by the prospect of a rare acoustic set by The Twilight Sad. Adam Stafford opened the evening with a set of experimental songs constructed from guitar and vocal loops. R.M. Hubbert’s flamenco-tinged acoustic guitar came next, his instrumental pieces redolent of melancholy summer nights and loss.
At ten past nine The Twilight Sad sauntered onstage to a sold-out crowd and opened with “That Summer, At Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy”. Andy MacFarlane’s spare fingerpicked acoustic guitar and Mark Devine’s wheezy accordion proved that the band’s songs retain their peculiar beauty even when shorn of their trademark effects and distortion.
