Later...When The TV Turns To Static
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| Studio album by Glasvegas | ||||
| Released | 2 September 2013 | |||
| Recorded | Glasgow, Scotland | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Label | BMG | |||
| Producer | James Allan | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 61/100 |
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| Allmusic |    |
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| Drowned in Sound | (5/10) |
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| NME | (6/10) |
| The Scotsman | |
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| The Independent | |
| PopMatters | (5/10) |
Later...When The TV Turns To Static is the third studio album by Scottish rock band Glasvegas. It was released on 2 September 2013 through BMG Records. The album was produced by lead singer James Allan. It received generally favourable reviews from critics but stalled at No.41 in the UK Charts. A cascading failure, it is the first of the group's studio albums not to reach the Top 10. Later...When The TV Turns To Static was released in three formats. Standard CD, Heavyweight White Vinyl and Deluxe Almanac with the latter containing a full length stripped version of the album on DVD. 30mins of footage contained within the Deluxe Almanac DVD is still broadcast by Sky Arts.
During their 2011 autumn tour the band debuted "If" live. They continued to perform and develop songs from the album throughout 2012 with "Later...When The TV Turns To Static", "I'd Rather Be Dead (Than Be with You)" and All I Want Is My Baby being among the first to be premiered. During the summer and autumn of 2012 the band went into the studio to record the album. It was recorded and mixed at the Gorbals Sound Studio in Glasgow. A tour was announced called "The Crying Onion" tour, which would see the band perform throughout December 2012 and continue to perform new material.
In an interview with Louder Than War, bass player Paul Donoghue tells Katie Clare how singer James Allan had a vision of how he wanted the album to be "James really has a full idea how this album should be, he even co-directed the first video, it was his vision from start to finish, he worked really hard and it gave everything a real continuity. Even the artwork was planned and the deluxe edition will come with a 40 page booklet that was all part of the idea." The album was also produced by lead singer Allan, Rab insisted: "We knew exactly what we wanted so there was no point in having anyone else but James working on it." James added: “It’s really hard to get to that point where you have a record out that you can sit and listen to that you totally adore.
Talking about the songs on the album lead singer James Allan says "I guess whether it’s my life or my experience it’ll either be that, or it’ll be my perception of something." he goes on to say "whether the songs were about my experiences... well they were about my experiences, and if they weren’t about my experiences, they were about my thoughts on things." Talking about If Allan explains "Quite a sympathetic song. It seems a shame the hardest, toughest things seem to define people. It’s not the times you hold the medal or wins that do it. The song is a spiritual view on things – without something evil, the kind-hearted man would walk on by, invisible." He went on to explain the inspiration behind the song, "My idea for the song came about during a phone call a while back with my good friend Alan McGee. He was talking to me about something quite difficult that was going on at the time and I said to him, 'Alan, if we didn't go through the bad stuff, we wouldn't recognize the good stuff; it would be invisible to you." Talking about the album's final track Finished Sympathy Allan says it's about the speed with which we're expected to shed naivety, how "people's expectations can be overwhelming. It's like when an infant trips and falls – people rush to pick them up and crowd around them going, 'Are you OK? Are you all right?' But as soon as you're out of that infant stage, when you trip and fall, everybody laughs at you. As you get older, it seems like sympathy is nowhere to be found." Explaining the meaning behind the title track Allan explains "“I guess it’s a song that I was writing, kind of about the place between what has just happened, a chapter that has just passed, and moving into the next chapter, the new dawn, that in-between place, where the unknown lies ahead, the mystery lies ahead, and that can be quite scary."
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