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| Pitchfork |
 Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of EPs: 1) Those, whether intended or not, that function as a unique short-form listening experience, and 2) Those that serve more as a clearinghouse for leftover material, covers, remixes, scattered ideas, and the like. That second type tend to be stopgaps and rewards for committed fans, and as such they tend to be the more forgettable of the two. (Though Grizzly Bear's Friend was a recent notable success.)Still, we can forgive a band like A Sunny Day in Glasgow for offering up something of a patchwork EP with Nitetime Rainbows. After all, this is a group that managed to cram no fewer than 22 tracks onto last year's winning hour-plus opus, Ashes Grammar, so it stands to reason that there would be plenty more from where that came from. What's more, the Philly outfit seems to be experiencing something of a recent renaissance. After playing lineup musical chairs for a few years, a band has finally coalesced around ASDIG mastermind Ben Daniels, and it makes sense that the new crew is eager to get more representative material out there. Hence the Nitetime Rainbows EP, home to three new compositions, alongside the title track (lifted from Ashes but newly mixed) and three remixes of said tune. As if the times needed another sign, it's vinyl and digital only. Ashes Grammar was the rare record that actually benefitted from its sprawl, and the act of teasing ecstatic moments out of that sprawl is a key delight of the Ashes listening experience. Nitetime foregrounds one of the finer moments, a series of particularly evocative synthetic tones that form the intro of "Nitetime Rainbows". Hidden amidst the LP, these sounds have a transformative, palette-cleansing effect, but even divorced from that context they still make for a marvelously effective mood-setter. Otherworldly and nocturnal, that mood is less second-hand signifiers and more of a piece with the stuff that makes dream-pop and shoegaze so alluring in the first place....full text |
| Reviler |
| Two things seem to follow Philadelphia experimental band A Sunny Day in Glasgow around like a cloud: great music and bad luck. Though the band has produced two extremely good LP’s (including last year’s Ashes Grammar), accidents, lost jobs, and lineup shuffles seem to keep them from ever really being able to purely concentrate on their music. Somehow though, the hits just keep on coming – most recently in the group’s new EP Nitetime Rainbows, a fantastic addition to the canon. Nitetime consists of four new songs and three remixes by outside producers. The sound is a continuation of the band’s low-fi, blended pop aesthetic. The music is intricately arranged with keyboards, droning guitars, krautrock beats, and delicate vocals weaving in and out of each other like so many strands of an intricately tangled web. The vocal parts by Jen Goma and (St. Paul native!) Annie Fredrickson feature prominently in each track. Though faded with distortion, each singer’s simple soprano guides each song, always threatening to succumb to being sucked under by the instrumentation while somehow staying afloat in the chaos. Even as complicated as each orchestration becomes, each piece is so minimal that it easily blends in with its counterparts. The overall effect is similar to gazing on an impressionist painting – from far away it can appear uniform but only upon closer examination one can derive how such a complicated mess can produce something so beautiful....full text |
| Insound |
| VINYL FORMAT. Clear Vinyl! Limited to 1000! An album of some of their brightest sounding songs to date. These are the sounds of a band falling in love, a band having fun. "Nitetime Rainbows" always struck the band as a song that could be its own album, let alone an EP/single. It was one of the most fun songs to record on Ashes Grammar, and it has the most elaborate and strange instruments on it - from vibes to lap steel to bulbul tarang. Its partner song, "Daytime Rainbows," was originally intended to appear on the full length but the band needed a bit more time to develop it. "So Bloody, So Tight" is one of the band's absolute favorite songs they've recorded to date and it's easy to hear why. The song is full of hope in a way the band has only hinted at previously. While the vocals are still low in the mix, the lyrics for this song are the first the band has ever shared. "Piano Lessons" was the result of Ben, who cannot play the piano, sitting at the baby grand for many, many hours one night. By the end of the night he was deliriously pounding the keys, mashing as many as he could with his palms flat. Also includes three remixes by The Buddy System, Benoit Pioulard, and Ezekiel Honig....full text |
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