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June 29, 2006
A Sunny Day in...New York City
Living here in thunderstorm central, the headline as taken literally would be news enough. The clever interpretation, however, is more exciting. A Sunny Day in Glasgow, actually from Philadelphia, will be gracing our fair city to taunt us with their lower cost of living and bring out the dense jams. Ben Daniels and his sisters will be playing the snug Cake Shop on Sunday, July 16th.
The Daniels famile is hard at work on Sunny Day's first full length, eyeballing a late 2006 or early 2007 release date. New material has popped up on MySpace, namely non-EP tracks "Hal Hartley" and "Horn Song". Both are on the shortlist for the as of yet untitled album. What label this might be released under is still in flux at this time, but stay tuned to MS.com for details as they develop.
For the MySpace lurkers who haven't sought out ASDIG's self released EP (and it's quite good, chumps) I leave you with the band's never Spaced, sideways cover of the Guided by Voices infidelity classic, "Game of Pricks."
A Sunny Day in Glasgow- "Game of Pricks"
Old banjo samples are expertly sculpted to resemble the original's sing song melody. Gone is the narrative thrust, as the newly recorded vocals chime in only ever so often to deliver now out of context snippets of Bob Pollard's already odd lyrics. The end result is typical for a Daniels composition, in that it blurs lines between live and sampled, old and new, odd and familiar. Confusing as ever, but ethereally pretty to be sure.
Visit their website, order a CD, here.
Tags: A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Cake Shop, Philadelphia, Guided by Voices
Posted by Jeff Klingman at June 29, 2006 08:00 AM
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