The Twilight Sad announce new album It’s The Long Goodbye and Irish dates

The Twilight Sad have announced the release of their sixth album It’s The Long Goodbye for March 27 via Rock Actions records.

The release will be followed by a number of live dates, including a headline gig in the Button Factory, Dublin on May 9, as well as accompanying The Cure for their June 26 Marley Park date and their June 28 show at Belfast’s Belsonic.

The announcement is also accompanied with the release of the record’s second single ‘Designed To Lose’, the follow-up to last October's ‘Waiting For The Phone Call’.

Check out ‘Designed To Lose’ below:

“It had to contain every element of emotion I was feeling,” says singer / lyricist James Graham of It’s The Long Goodbye. “In the past I’ve used a lot of metaphors within my lyrics. With this, there’s not as much. The record is heavily influenced by my mental health, grief and loss, and the need to be strong in positions where you’re not feeling it. It’s a very human story, I think – this is just my version of it. I feel that everybody goes through something like this. Everybody loses somebody. Everybody questions life.”

The record was developed over seven years, with the London-based MacFarlane stockpiling musical ideas during lockdown, and the Cure’s Robert Smith guesting on the record, supplying extra guitars on ‘Waiting For The Phone Call’, guitars/“Tron keys” on ‘Dead Flowers’ and six-string bass on ‘Back To Fourteen’’.

Tickets for The Twilight Sad at the Button Factory go are on sale now here.

You can pre-order It’s The Long Goodbye here.

Find the full tracklist below:

1. 'GET AWAY FROM IT ALL'
2. 'DESIGNED TO LOSE'
3. 'ATTEMPT A CRASH LANDING - THEME'
4. 'WAITING FOR THE PHONE CALL'
5. 'THE CEILING UNDERGROUND'
6. 'DEAD FLOWERS'
7. 'INHOSPITABLE / HOSPITAL'
8. 'CHEST WOUND TO THE CHEST'
9. 'BACK TO FOURTEEN'
10. 'TV PEOPLE STILL THROWING TVS AT PEOPLE'