A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
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Artist: A Sunny Day in GlasgowEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-09-15
Music Label: Carrot Top Records
Soundtracks:
- Secrets at the Prom
- Slaughter Killing Carnage (The Meaning of Words)
- Failure
- Curse Words
- Close Chorus
- Shy
- Passionate Introverts (Dinosaurs)
- West Philly Vocoder
- Evil, With Evil, Against Evil
- The White Witch
- Nitetime Rainbows
- Canalfish
- Loudly
- Blood White
- Ashes Grammar
- Ashes Maths
- Miss My Friends
- Starting at a Disadvantage
- Life's Great
- Headphone Space
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Music Review: dreamy brilliance
Rating: 5 Stars
Ashes Grammar is just... the greatest. It's so good. I felt the need to give it some love after seeing that there was only one other review. The other reviewer was correct to compare this album to Loveless. However, Sunny Day are much more than just MBV leaning shoegaze. Ashes Grammar is a very ambitious album; it's tracks range from 11 seconds to 6 and a half minutes in length, encompassing 22 tracks that flow effortlessly into one another. While Galaxie 500 and other influential dream-pop acts created hazy slow moving pop, A Sunny Day in Glasgow have truly embodied the free-flowing structureless essence of dreams, moving with ease between ambient wisps of ideas and blissed-the-f***-out shoegazy pop greatness. There is plenty of melodic brilliance and intelligent song writing within the album. Shy, Close Chorus, and Headphone Space in particular feature impeccable song-writing while still fitting seamlessly in the album as a whole.
There are many different artists I associate Ashes Grammar with - the dense sonic brilliance of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, the free-flowing structure of Boards of Canada on Music Has the Right to Children or Geogaddi, the trance inducing power of Deerhunter's finest works (e.g. Helicopter). But Ashes Grammar has a sound uniquely it's own, and is a necessary listen for anyone who likes shoegaze, blissy pop, joy, or sunny days. Especially that last one, literally nothing goes with a sunny day better than Ashes Grammar.
Also, if you ever get the chance to see them live, take it.
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Description of Ashes Grammar
2009 release. Opening with a 10 second homage to Estonian composer Arvo Part, it's immediately apparent that A Sunny Day in Glasgow's Ashes Grammar is going to be a much more visceral outing than their 2007 album debut, Scribble Mural Comic Journal. It takes a few minutes for the record to even begin to reveal itself, as a swarm of 1950s acapella ('Secrets At The Prom') gives way to resonant drones, room noise, and sub bass ('Slaughter Killing Carnage'). It's here that 'Failure' unexpectedly kicks in with a tribal stomp and a fluttering guitar acting as a pair of wings, lifting the circular chants of the song's melody off the ground. It's all at once joyous, insecure, and blissed-out and sounds nothing like we've heard from A Sunny Day in Glasgow before.Alternative Rock CDs
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