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This record left clinton feeling happy.
its overcast, my shoe fell down the stairs and i had to go all the way down to get it. i snapped at the wife on the way out and have probably ruined the entire weekend but....thank goodness for this album - it really is a box of delights - lopsided pop music from the same melting pot as my bloody valentine, seefeel, boards of canada, his name is alive and adventures in stereo. its hard to do it justice with mere words other than to say each song brings a new an unexpected pleasure and you don't really know where its going to go next.... Review date: 05 May 2007
What we say
 This record left our Phil feeling ecstatic.
So here I am writing this review again a week later as Maggie annoyingly deleted my last review for this. It was great as well. Probably the best review I'd ever written and it's lost in cyberspace. No one will ever see it..... a daunting thought I'm sure you'll all agree. The only option I have left is to cobble together another review for this incredible A Sunny Day In Glasgow CD which is so good you should need a licence to own it. This is simply great experimental indie music taking in elements of all your old faves like Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Medicine, The Cocteaus, Sarah Records etc...but yet it's so much more. It's a right ole ecelctic mess and the whole thing reminds me of that fantastic New Sound of Numbers CD from last year. I'm not sure how they've got such a diverse amount of sounds and influences (you can even hear bits of Aphex and Seefeel in there at times) and made it coherent but astonishingly they have. It's like the indie of the early 90's but made with a fresh modern take and it really totally works. The tunes.. the production.... the whole shebang. It's great! Scribble Mural Comic Journal is CD only!! My original review was loads better than this..... I got cack all sleep last night.... the next time I see Maggie.....
What the label says:
It all began as the bedroom projects of Ben Daniels and Ever Nalens. Ben moved to London, England for a girl and wound up just walking around a lot. Moving to Glasgow, Scotland to go to art school, Ever didn't realize there was a place on earth, outside of the poles, where the sun might not be visible for weeks at a time. He was completely unprepared for the effects of this upon his state of mind. Suffice it to say, sunny days in Glasgow had a profound impact on him. Returning to Philadelphia deeply affected by their respective experiences, the two began collaborating on little recordings made with radio shack microphones in Ben's apartment.
After a while Ever gave up to focus on pictures, but Ben continued on, bringing in his sister, Robin, on vocals. After another short while, sister Lauren was brought in to fill out the sound and the group began to record in earnest on Ben's new laptop with a nice new condenser mic. In March of 2006 they self-released an EP titled, "The Sunniest Day Ever", which was met with a great deal more radio-play and press than any of them had ever expected. The ensuing attention motivated the three to record like crazy and the end result was edited and assembled to create the band's debut LP, "Scribble Mural Comic Journal".
Using mandolins, banjos, noise, samplers, lots of cuttin' n pastin', and all of the normal band instruments, Philadelphia's A Sunny Day in Glasgow adds lush female vocals and dance-y rhythms to make dreamy pop music. Distorted guitars alongside Robin and Lauren's vocals glisten for thirteen storied tracks on "Scribble Mural Comic Journal." The album succeeds in marrying Cocteau Twins' other-wordliness, JAMC white noise, the best aspects of early Aphex Twin, and the jangle of "Strawberry Wine" era MBV to create pop music that somehow makes sense despite making no sense.
Ben currently resides in Montreal while his sisters still live in Philly so touring is limited but ASDIG will be going on a short East coast tour following the February 13 release date.
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