Keeping with this ongoing theme of new albums I’ve failed to mention over the past month or so continues with A Sunny Day In Glasgow and their recently released second album titled Ashes Grammar. As their name may lead you to believe, they are not actually from Glasgow or anywhere remotely nearby, but are actually a Philadelphia-based group.
I remember hearing them on the radio a few years ago while driving through Atlanta on the interstate. I was instantly hooked, and not knowing for months what the exact song I heard was incredibly agonizing. Of course, I figured out the song (“Wake Up Pretty”); but to this day, I still have not listened to Scribble Mural Comic Journal in its entirety. There’s no real reason to attribute to it; I guess I was just content with listening to bits and pieces of it.
That being said, it kind of made the release of Ashes Grammar a bit anticlimactic for me. I kind of gave it one of those “Oh hey, I know those guys!” sort of reactions. After listening to “Failure” for the first time, I was instantly reminded why I liked these guys. I’ve always had a rough time with people tossing the Shoegaze tag on them, as it just seems so lazy to label them with that.
I’m not even sure if I could think of a genre to describe them outside of just a very dense, ambient-laden kind of dream pop. It’s music that’s completely lost within itself, which may not sound like much of a compliment, but it just makes as I listen to these songs (all 22 of them).
MP3: A Sunny Day In Glasgow :: “Failure”
MP3: A Sunny Day In Glasgow :: “Ashes Grammar Ashes Maths”
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