Dawn is rising for The Twilight Sad

To understand that, consider the band’s beginning that included the creation of half-hour-long pieces of music using conventional (guitars, drums) and unconventional (tape loops for films, saws) instruments. After only a few gigs they had a solid fan base and gig offers. They turned down the offers to hunker down to fine-tune their writing and style.

The result is two very different sounds on the band’s 2007 album “Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters” and its 2009 album “Forget The Night.”

“The songs just look at things from my point of view,” Graham said in answer to critics’ complaints that he won’t define the meaning of the lyrics. “I like it if I find [fans] don’t know exactly what the songs are about. If you go back to a time of my life and then I tell you what the songs on the album are about, it may ruin your own perception. Music helps me remember periods of life and I hope it lets others do the same with their lives.”

Now on a U.S. tour, Graham promises the shows will exude great passion and noise although the band won’t use as many instruments as they used in recording the CD. The set will also be fairly evenly split between songs from the two albums, he said. New music — including from the band’s upcoming EP “The Wrong Car” scheduled for July release — will likely also be in the set.

The band is also ready to start to record its third album which, Graham again said, will not sound like the music on the first two albums despite the loyalty and affection of its fan base.

That avant-garde attitude has served the band well thus far. Consider that MacFarlane learned to play guitar in “one day I just sat down and taught myself.” After the quartet recorded and produced their CD, they sent a demo — without any formal introduction — to FatCat Records [this is spelled correctly] and immediately got a positive response. And Graham, MacFarlane and Mark Devine (drums) quickly regrouped when their first bass player left, bringing Johnny Docherty of the band Take a Worm For a Walk Week into the band. Casual attitudes and fast decisions have worked for the band, so why quibble with success?

“I think we will try new things,” Graham said of the band’s next album. “The first two records are done and dusted now. It’s hard to say exactly what it will be until we get into the studio but we will definitely try new things. We want to keep it interesting musically and something we can be really proud of. We want to keep pushing ahead.”