"There's a Girl in the Corner"... well, of course there is—it's a Twilight Sad song. Though the Glasgow band has streamlined the volcanic emo convulsions of their early days into silvery, subdued post-punk, James Graham still tends to find a muse in damaged youths—the kinds isolated in plain view because of an unknown wrong, most likely one committed against them.
The opening track on the upcoming Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave expounds on the emotional intransigence of that verbose title; the repeating guitar figure and unwavering rhythm sulk at the pace of a kid who's just been told to "think about what you've done." But whatever happened, no one's telling. Working within his lower, passive-aggressive register, Graham intones, "she's not coming back," mourning something already lost. Point being: she'll likely be back in the same corner, but things will never be the same.
