Ashes Grammar

Opening with a ten second homage to Estonian composer Arvo Part, it.s immediately apparent that A Sunny Day in Glasgow.s new album, Ashes Grammar, is going to be a much more visceral outing than their 2007 album debut, Scribble Mural Comic Journal. It takes a few minutes for the record to even begin to reveal itself, as a swarm of 1950s acapella (Secrets at the prom) gives way to resonant drones, room noise, and sub bass (Slaughter killing carnage). It.s here that Failure unexpectedly kicks in with a tribal stomp and a fl uttering guitar acting as a pair of wings, lifting the circular chants of the song.s melody off the ground. It.s all at once joyous, insecure, and blissed-out.and sounds nothing like we.ve heard from A Sunny Day in Glasgow before.