It's been a busy twelve months for Philadelphia shoegazers A Sunny Day In Glasgow. Following on from this year's Nitetime Rainbows EP, the band have self-released a follow-up full-length to last year's massively underrated Ashes Grammar, and they've made it available for free. Autumn, Again maintains the same ethereal sound aesthetic of Ashes Grammar, but whilst Ashes Grammar ebbed and flowed over its great expanse, the relatively slight (just 34 minutes) Autumn, Again wisely goes down a more concise route, offering up some of the band's most immediate pop songs to date, on the likes of the Cure-esque 100/0 (Snowdays forever) and Calling It Love Isn't Love (Don't Fall In Love), which sounds like Dinosaur Jr's Freak Scene being covered by The Cocteau Twins. The only sprawl on this album comes from the song titles; Violet Mary Haunts Me Or Loss Of Forgtfulness On Renfrew Street takes longer to say than the song's duration. The band have rather humourously genre-tagged the album as "Awesome"; that's not really that far off the mark.
You can download the album from the band's website. Consider it an early christmas present, but for those of you with a conscience, you can also make a donation; this band deserve it, so go on go on go on go on go on.
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