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| Pitchfork |
 The standard form-follows-function justification for dream-pop's aural clutter goes something like this: Because the music focuses on memories and emotional pasts, it makes sense that it's fuzzy, ambiguous, and rose-tinted. That's what memories are like, after all. Or so the arguments go. So sometimes the most refreshing thing about A Sunny Day in Glasgow is that they seem to remember that dreams aren't vague recitations, they're constructions. They achieve this not by writing catchy songs and then wrapping them in yarn, but by continuously unraveling and re-messing whatever is in front of them.On their third proper album, Autumn, Again, ASDIG continue to write pop songs that basically fail to distinguish music from memory anyway, so fragmentary are their creations. A first kiss here, a Chiffons melody there, some of Cluster's keyboards chewed and then wadded under a desk. Autumn, Again follows Ashes Grammar and the Nitetime Rainbows EP as the final remnant of a burst of creativity that saw the band rotate their lineup, record, and then tour extensively. Autumn, Again was finally finished during a recent break, and it's more of the same: bandleader Ben Daniels mapping and manipulating the airy voices of Annie Fredrickson, Jen Goma, and whatever else his bandmates float his way. It is more concise (conveniently, coincidentally, half as long as Ashes Grammar) and less wily than its predecessor, often relying on comparatively sturdy and rock band-y arrangements. They are playful in the way that, say, Belle and Sebastian are playful, caching lovelorn sentiments in junior-high language and girl-group sighs: "How does somebody say when they like you?" "Calling It Love Isn't Love (Don't Fall in Love)" is, structurally, one of the band's simplest songs ever: flushed acoustic guitars, snares on the 2's and 4's, an electric guitar solo. The very next song-- catch the title: "This Assclown Eats Ambien OR Nobody Likes You (No Art)"-- grabs lustily at over-reverberated, 4AD-style atmosphere. And still, there are occasions when ASDIG just take off: when the beat hits during "Drink Drank Drunk" or when the voices bob and weave between the interjecting synth candyland of "Fall in Love". If bands were in the habit of pressing 10 and 20-second moments to 7" vinyl, ASDIG would make a killing....full text |
| Tinymixtapes |
| Autumn, Again: not merely an emotional response to the coming seasonal change, but also the title of a brand-new A Sunny Day in Glasgow LP to be released via the Mis Ojos Discos label on limited maroon 12-inch vinyl. The album will be available for free digital download (until the end of autumn!) and physical purchase on October 19, but if you're doing the herky jerk in anticipation, go ahead and pre-order the thing here. Autumn, Again follows up last year's excellent melted pop gem Ashes Grammar (TMT Review) and the more recent Nitetime Rainbows EP. The band will also be doing a quick stint in Northeast towns in celebration of the coming season. Check 'em out. Autumn, Again tracklist: 01. Autumn, Again 02. Fall in Love 03. Petition to Refrain from Repetition 04. Sigh, Inhibitionist (Come All Day with Me) 05. Moments on the Lawn 06. Drink Drank Drunk 07. Violet Mary Haunts Me OR Loss of Forgetfulness on Renfrew Street 08. How Does Somebody Say When They Like You? 09. Calling It Love Isn’t Love (Don’t Fall in Love) 10. This Assclown Eats Ambien OR Nobody Likes You (No Art) 11. 100/0 (Snowdays Forever) Tourdates: 10.23.10 - Swarthmore, PA - Olde Club @ Swarthmore College * 10.25.10 - Washington, DC - DC9 * 10.26.10 - Brooklyn, NY - Knitting Factory # 10.27.10 - Boston, MA - Great Scott * 10.28.10 - New Haven, CT - Lily’s Pad * 10.29.10 - Storrs, CT - University of Connecticut ^ 10.30.10 - New York City, NY - Mercury Lounge *...full text |
| Prefixmag |
| The recording sessions that birthed A Sunny Day in Glasgow's fractured second LP, Ashes Grammar, were almost comically tumultuous: Brice Hickey, Robin Daniels, and Lauren Daniels all left the band, for reasons ranging from broken legs to grad school. Yet chaos seemingly bolstered creativity for the Philadelphia neo-shoegazers, as they left the studio with enough material to fill not only the 22-track Ashes Grammar but also the Nitetime Rainbows EP and, now, Autumn, Again. The band released the album--which, they warn, is no indication of the direction they've since taken--as a free digital download on their website, and made 500 vinyl copies available for purchase....full text |
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