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A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Scribble Music Comic Journal

by Glenn Fullington
11/23/2007

A Sunny Day In Glasgow's Scribble Music Comic Journal offers airy pop melodies of layered vocal harmonies, percussive keys, looped strangeness and xylophone wanderings that waft through the headphones. The vocals are interpretable upon close listen, and scarily ethereal on most tracks.

The album is deep aurally and emotionally. Often on the album there are things going on in the background of a song that are confusing or even ludicrous.

Auditory contradictions reign supreme, but the randomness leaves the listener on his toes. You never know where the next song is going, or, for that matter, the next half song.

Clapping and choral harmonizing with guitar wrenching in the foreground, trippy synth loops backed by soothing vocal “Oohs” characterize much of the record. Time to take your lithium.

The instrumentation seems haphazardly arranged given the beautiful vocal harmonizing, but eerie jaunts into wailed lyrics gave me the sense that the work was a whole. There is too much going on to ever separate the tracks mentally, but as an entire piece the inconsistent wandering becomes transparent and an overall deceptively cheery album emerges.