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''Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters'' is the debut studio album by Scottish indie rock band The Twilight Sad, released by Fat Cat Records on 3 April 2007 in the US, and 7 May 2007 in the UK. The album features production from guitarist Andy MacFarlane and was mixed by Peter Katis.〔(Album Synopsis - fatcatrecords.co.uk )〕 It was recorded over a short period of just three days, and the songs featured were the first ones the band had ever written.〔(DiS meets The Twilight Sad )〕 The album's influences include Van Dyke Parks, Phil Spector, Daniel Johnston,〔(FatCat Records: Releases )〕 Arab Strap, Serge Gainsbourg, and Leonard Cohen.〔(Q&A: The Twilight Sad - TLOBF.COM )〕 Vocalist James Graham commented on the difference between the band's live show and the album, stating that, "If you came to see us live before you actually heard the record or any recordings we made, you'd probably think we were kind of a noisy band. If you had the record and sat down with it, you can totally see it's more than noise."〔(Twilight Sad's fly by night summer stopover - Impose )〕 "That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy", "Last Year's Rain Didn't Fall Quite So Hard", and "And She Would Darken the Memory" also appear on the band's debut EP, ''The Twilight Sad'', while four tracks from the album would later appear on ''Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did'' in a re-recorded state. The Twilight Sad performed ''Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters'' in its entirety for the first time in December 2013, with further UK dates performing the full album in April and May 2014. The tour dates coincided with the release of a deluxe edition reissue of the album, with bonus tracks including demos and rarities, released on Record Store Day 2014.〔 The reissue was pressed as a double vinyl LP, limited to 500 copies only, and available in the United Kingdom only.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fat-cat.co.uk/site/news/the-twilight-sad-celebrate-the-reissue-of-their-debut-album-with-free-live )〕 ==Songs== Regarding the album's lyrical content, James Graham remarked that "All the songs are just pretty much about what's happened to us, people that I know, and where we live. () I never really tell anyone what the songs are about because my favorite songs are the ones that I don't really know the exact meanings to either; I have my own perceptions of those songs and can relate it back to myself. So, it's just something that I always said, that I would keep what the songs are all about to myself." In a 2014 track-by-track interview about the album with Drowned in Sound, Graham remarked that opening track "Cold Days from the Birdhouse" was one of the last songs written for the album, but was originally set to be a B-side, which he claimed is "a terrifying thought as 'Cold Days' is one of the most popular songs and has been the song that's introduced so many people to our music." First single "That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy", whose title is a reference to the film ''Stand by Me'',〔 was the first song the band had ever written, and was inspired by "some pretty bad things" that happened to the band members and people close to them. The song has also been one of the band's most enduring songs, having been played at every live performance since it was written.〔 The accordion featured in many of the songs on the album, including "Walking for Two Hours" and "I'm Taking the Train Home", was found by guitarist Andy MacFarlane in the attic of his house. Graham stated in 2014 that the accordion is "unfortunately now broken."〔 "Last Year's Rain Didn't Fall Quite So Hard" was inspired by Animal Collective's 2004 album ''Sung Tongs'', with MacFarlane and Graham creating melodies and vocals to loop, a writing and recording method the band had never tried before.〔 "Talking with Fireworks / Here, It Never Snowed" is referred to the band as "Loud/Quiet" on their setlists; and when performed live, Graham provides extra cymbal crashes, sometimes even playing the cymbal with his head.〔 Graham has said that centerpiece "Mapped by What Surrounded Them" is a tough song to sing live given the subject matter, and the song's title is a reference to the book and film ''The Virgin Suicides''. Online independent music site ''GoldFlakePaint'' analyzed the song as swiftly turning "childish imagery ('She's sitting in the primrose garden and she's playing with her toys') into something far more darker () ('...and she's taken far too young') without ever explicating the full story; though talk of 'walls filled with blame' and visions of the protagonist watching 'Emily dance' in his dreams, only leads us to the most awful of assumptions." Second single "And She Would Darken the Memory" was the band's first song with an accompanying music video, directed by Mark Charlton.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBHnESrmmM0 )〕 Closing instrumental "Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters" was inspired by Serge Gainsbourg and the chord changes he would use; according to MacFarlane, "It had a big influence on the music, particularly this song. I've never had a piano or been able to play it, which is why it sounds like a drunken, out of time mess."〔 A special CD edition of the album was released in late 2007 with the bonus track "Watching That Chair Painted Yellow", which was the B-side to "That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.discogs.com/release/1970527 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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