Artist: A Sunny Day in Glasgow
Release: Nitetime Rainbows
Label: Mis Ojos Discos
Genre: Indie : Electronic
Territories: Worldwide
UPC: 616892078661
Release Date: 3/02/10
With the release of their new LP, Ashes Grammar, Philadelphia’s ambient pop outfit, A Sunny Day In Glasgow, continued to dazzle and amaze with new material and exploration into uncharted musical grounds while consistently providing their fans with the dreamy, ethereal comfort their highly loved previous material was heralded for. The recording sessions for the new record stretched across 6 months and were fraught with all kinds of disaster, but in the end, they were also incredibly productive. After the album’s completion, a good number of extra songs were put on the shelf for a while as the core trio of Ben Daniels, Annie Fredrickson and Josh Meakim reclaimed their lives.
“Nitetime Rainbows” always struck the band as a song that could be its own album, let alone EP/single. Sunny Day has decided to do just that, releasing the Nitetime Rainbows EP on Mis Ojos Discos, a blooming of side thoughts from their latest full length. The title track was one of the most fun songs to record on Ashes Grammar, and it has the most elaborate and strange instruments on it — from vibes to lap steel to bulbul tarang. Its partner song, “Daytime rainbows,” was originally intended to appear on the full length but the band needed a bit more time to develop it. “So bloody, so tight” is one of the band’s absolute favorite songs they’ve recorded to date and it’s easy to hear why. The song is full of hope in a way the band has only hinted at previously. While the vocals are still low in the mix, the lyrics for this song are the first the band has ever shared. “Piano lessons” was the result of Ben, who cannot play the piano, sitting at the baby grand for many, many hours one night. By the end of the night he was deliriously pounding the keys, mashing as many as he could with his palms flat. The experience made him wish he hadn’t given up piano lessons when he was 12 and it also revealed some beautiful noise in the banging. The EP also features three remixes by label friends Benoît Pioulard, Ezekiel Honig and The Buddy System – each offering wholly unique interpretations of the title song. Artwork for the EP was contributed by Finnish artist Jaakko Mattila, whose artwork previously appeared on the CD and LP versions of Ashes Grammar.
Nitetime Rainbows features of some of their brightest sounding songs to date. These are the sounds of a band falling in love, a band having fun.
Grab a track to go off our SXSW sampler here:
A Sunny Day in Glasgow
“Shy” (mp3)
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Also, if you’re heading to Austin this year for SXSW, Sunny Day will be gracing the stage at IODA’s sixth anual SXSW Opening Day Bash along with a great line-up composed of all IODA distributed artists! This is not to be missed.
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