"Look what you have done," says Graham on the song, without telling- its central offense is as diabolical as you want it to be. "The Room" is not a particularly detailed song title, but given the track's shadowy images of "nails in our feet" and a creepy "grandson's toy in the corner," it's pretty clear this four-walled space is not all that welcoming.
Because this band's tempest of meat-slap drums and fire-engine-from-hell distortion makes the mind go to disturbing places with very little provocation. And, in a recent Pitchfork interview, he had this to say about Forget the Night Ahead: "Things happened to me and basically about trying to forget what happened." Such tactics are hardly enlightening, but they are smart. "I've never told anyone what my songs are about, and I don't intend to," he once said. While Graham has done many interviews over the last few years, he likes to keep mum when it comes to the meaning of his words. To wit, the closest thing resembling a love song, the roiling "Interrupted", is topped off by Graham murmuring, "you and I will bury them all." It will not be played at weddings. And there's no youthful spirit to balance out the dread, either, as it's allowed to run amok throughout the album's 11 punishing tracks.
With his mommy and daddy issues sufficiently exorcised, Graham moves onto more adult worries with Forget the Night Ahead- there's still no summer or spring in Twilight Sad World, and the days are even shorter this time around. Afterwards It Did, showed the masked son suffocating the same mother with a pillow. The album cover showed a cartoon mother angrily waving her masked son away the album's companion EP, Here, It Never Snowed. Since Fourteen Autumns contained many (albeit vague) references to a severely traumatic childhood, it often sounded like a form of coded primal scream therapy.
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