Òran Mór 2020 (stylized in all caps, also written Oran Mor 2020[1]) is a live concert album by Scottish indie rock band The Twilight Sad, released as a "pay-what-you-want" download via Bandcamp by Rock Action Records on 26 December 2020. It features only vocalist James Graham and guitarist Andy MacFarlane, together with some programmed drums.

Òran Mór 2020
Live album by
Released26 December 2020 (2020-12-26)
RecordedOctober 2020
VenueÒran Mór
GenrePost-punk revival, indie rock
Length43:35
LanguageScottish English
LabelRock Action
ProducerAndy MacFarlane
The Twilight Sad chronology
It Won/t Be Like This All the Time Live
(2020)
Òran Mór 2020
(2020)

Background

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The album is the soundtrack to a live concert video recorded in October 2020 at Glasgow venue Òran Mór, which was shown as a paid stream on 5 December 2020, and was only available for viewing on that day.[2] It features eleven tracks taken from all five of the band's studio albums, along with a cover of The Cure's "M".[3] On 25 December, in a Twitter post wishing a Merry Christmas, the band said that they "also hear that sometimes the best presents arrive on the 26th". The following day, they announced that the concert video would be available to purchase again for three days (free to previous ticket holders), and also that the soundtrack would be released that day.[4] It is titled to distinguish it from their previous acoustic Òran Mór Session, recorded at the same venue in 2015.[5]

Track listing

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All lyrics are written by James Alexander Graham, except "M" by Robert Smith; all music is composed by Andy MacFarlane, except "M" by The Cure

No.TitleOriginal version appears onLength
1."3 Seconds of Dead Air"The Twilight Sad EP5:13
2."VTr"It Won/t Be Like This All the Time4:14
3."That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy"Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters3:41
4."And She Would Darken the Memory"Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters2:55
5."The Room"Forget the Night Ahead4:27
6."Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave"Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave3:18
7."Sick"No One Can Ever Know4:27
8."Alphabet"No One Can Ever Know4:27
9."Keep It All to Myself"It Won/t Be Like This All the Time3:00
10."M"Non-album cover song; originally from the Cure's Seventeen Seconds2:47
11."Last January"Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave5:06

Personnel

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Musicians

  • James Alexander Graham – vocals
  • Andy MacFarlane – guitars, programming

Production

  • Andy MacFarlane – producer
  • Michael Brennan – mixing

Release history

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Release formats for Oran Mor 2020
Country Date Label Format Catalogue #
Worldwide 26 December 2020 Rock Action Records Download

References

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  1. ^ "Oran Mor 2020 | The Twilight Sad". Thetwilightsad.bandcamp.com. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
  2. ^ "The Twilight Sad – Òran Mór Performance Film". Òran Mór. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  3. ^ "The Twilight Sad announce "stripped-back" Òran Mór concert film". NME. 17 November 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  4. ^ "The Twilight Sad re-stream Òran Mór performance film and release live album". NME. 26 December 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  5. ^ McElroy, David. "The Twilight Sad – Oran Mor Session". Scottish Fiction. Retrieved 27 December 2020.