| Twilight Theater | |
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| Released | March 17, 2010 |
| Length | 46:08 |
| Label | Insomniac |
| Producer | Poets of the Fall |
Twilight Theater is the fourth album by the Finnish alternative rock band Poets of the Fall and the second album of the Revolution Roulette Trilogy. It was released on 17th March 2010[1]
In mid-2009, after finishing the Revolution Roulette Tour, the band announced they would be heading into the studio to record their fourth album, the genre of which they described as "cinematic rock".[2] On 9 December 2009, the band announced that a song entitled "War" from their fourth studio album would be featured in Alan Wake, a psychological thriller video game developed by Remedy Entertainment.
In June, the band released a video for "War" (despite it being only a promotional single on radio) which re-enacts scenes from the game in live-action. It features Finnish actor Ilkka Villi as the game's protagonist of the same name (Villi also served as the model used for the creation of the Alan Wake character) and the band, except Saaresto. The band portrays in the video some of Alan Wake's in-game antagonists, lumberjacks possessed by an evil force named "the Dark Presence". The antagonists are collectively called "the Taken".
On 18 January, the band announced that their fourth album entitled Twilight Theater would be released on 17 March in Finland and that the first single from the album would be Dreaming Wide Awake which debuted on Radio NRJ Suomi on 21 January and was released on 3 February as a limited-edition single. It reached No. 18 on the Finnish single-charts.[3][4]
Twilight Theater was released in Finland and on iTunes on 17 March, followed by Germany, Austria and Switzerland on 29 October. It went straight to the top of the Finnish album charts and was certified gold a week after release.[5][6]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Poets of the Fall
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Dreaming Wide Awake" | 4:23 |
| 2. | "War" | 5:06 |
| 3. | "Change" | 4:46 |
| 4. | "15 Min Flame" | 5:00 |
| 5. | "Given and Denied" | 4:17 |
| 6. | "Rewind" | 4:22 |
| 7. | "Dying to Live" | 3:46 |
| 8. | "You're Still Here" | 3:27 |
| 9. | "Smoke and Mirrors" | 5:17 |
| 10. | "Heal My Wounds" | 5:56 |
Physical Releases
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CD
Merchandise
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Twilight Theater Badge -
Twilight Theater T-Shirt
Trivia
- The ticket on the album artwork contains coded information. "Seat", "Row" and "Showtime" are the album's release date of 17th March 2010. 81131182091 (8 1 13 1 18 20 9 1) is a Letter Number Code that spells "H A M A R T I A", as in Hounds to Hamartia. The word Hamartia means a fatal flaw.
- The album's copyright statement starts with "2010 Poets of the Fall. Now imagine all sorts of unimpressive legal jargon here, all the copyright logos and such, just to make it look important, ha ha ha... or don't."
Interviews
tuonelamagazine.com
The album itself talks about the occurrences you see in everyday life and in the world. The world is kind of like a “dog-eats-dog” world and that’s what it talks about. It talks about saving face, it talks about how things are not necessarily the way they are seen, it urges you to look closer and not take [their] word for it. Don’t believe everything they say, find out for yourself. Those are the general ideas. It talks about the idea of “hamartia,” which is basically from Aristotle’s Poetics. It is a mistake that is based on ignorance, a fatal mistake that you make, because you don’t know any better. And that’s what “hamartia” is. It’s a very old concept of how to build stories.
For instance, there is a very good story of a poor man who had a very good hunting falcon, and the falcon was actually so good that the king heard about it. The king sent a messenger to the man saying that he is going to come for a visit very soon. But the messenger didn’t tell the man that the king is coming to see the falcon, because the falcon is so famous. So the poor man said, “Oh god, the king is coming and I have nothing to offer him.” So at last he decided that at least he can cook his falcon and offer a good meal to the king. “Even though my home is very humble and there is nothing here for him.” And that’s what he did. When the king came along, the man has killed the falcon to serve his dinner. So that’s what “hamartia” is all about. This is what “Twilight Theater” speaks about.
Musically, “Twilight Theater” is a very melodic, it has some hard sounds along the way, but also very soft, very intimate, very mellow. We like contrasts, so we like to do very big things sound-wise. So it really gives you a good idea of what Poets of the Fall is all about. Of course it’s the latest album, so it sort of sets the bar to what we are at the moment. - Marko Saaresto[7]
STALKER
" “Twilight Theater” is “Dancing in the Dark” "- Marko, STALKER, 2013[8]