A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW on geographic north records

(cult of) The Cemetery Flowers (mandolins version) 7″ - Released July 8, 2008

A: (cult of) The Cemetery Flowers (mandolins version)
B: Walking Pneumonia

Shoegaze, Shitgaze, whatever...this could have been on the Lost in Translation soundtrack, let's just put it that way.
I think the problem with that sound is it's so pigeonholed that any experimentation with that piling up of layered distortion can only go one way..does it end up sounding the same by default? Not necessarily... I think A Sunny Day In Glasgow is definitely doing something interesting within this framework. It's really reminding me of the Spinnanes vocally with the instrumentation of a Magnetic Fields....very Stephen Merrit layered synths sounds that become a repetitive base, turning into percussion. A rhythm to build on.
The thing that fascinates me about this sound is what happens when the sounds are allowed to just bleed all over each other like this...blasted into a space at full volume and then captured. The separation is gone, where it came from doesn't matter anymore...it really becomes it's own thing entirely, it's own haze...like some kind of sound alchemy...at least that what it sounds like from here.
Like the track '515 train', there is a wobbly synth sound that comes in and out, and is probably getting that effect from being recorded to magnetic tape and the natural overdrive and gating of the mic that happened when being completely blown out by some kind of super synth bass that comes in now and then...like the bass note sine wave is cancelling out the higher synth sound? That's where the magic happens...creating these sounds that we can't even capture...that cause the mechanics to just act a little wacky...this is as close as you are going to get, but still it even becomes something else once you record it. Like quarks.

They aren't sticking to this formula either, which could easily drive a bunch of albums...vary it just slightly, echo beyond recognition...at times it's a single instrument working on echo overdrive with most of the sound being clear like the track on this single 'Cemetary Flowers', ...there are just a bunch of electronic sounds, creating this deceptively chipper sterolab kind of loop. And the vocals are just right for this...any less echo and you get into Enya territory...it's right on the edge, but falling into the Crytal Stilts side of the fence.

Available directly from Geographic North Records who actually have a subscription series now that I'm looking at it...I'll have to look into that and get back to you about the releases....

From Aquarius records:
A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW "You Can't Hide Your Love Forever Vol. 1" (Geographic North) 7"

This Philly band captured our hearts a couple years back with one of the best shoegaze inspired records we had heard in ages, Scribble Mural Comic Journal, an album with which we fell more and more in love with every listen. So we were excited to see that they were picked to kick off this awesome new series of 7"s put out by Geographic North, called You Can't Hide Your Love Forever, which will also feature talented folks like Tarentel, Tussle, and more! These two new songs find ASDIG in perfect form, delivering more of their swirling daydream delights that remind us of brighter sunnier Cocteau Twins. Perfect for the 7" format as this is a band who creates songs that only get better with constant listens, we've been playing this over and over! Comes on cool blue vinyl and of course pretty limited as most of these sorts of things tend to be.

If you're interested, they have another one on Disjuncture records also....which looks like their only 7" release.