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July 25, 2006
The wrath of Yul Brynner
One item of genuinely exciting news and two very sweet rumors:
Fluxblog's lately-favored (and more importantly, Philly-native) A Sunny Day in Glasgow are playing August 3rd at the Khyber, and they're opening, so get there early if you want to see them. The band is currently working on recording a full-length (which apparently needs to be finished by August 31st, for mysterious reasons), and in their continuing tradition of generosity, have put some of the brand new songs up on their website ('Shame, Who Wouldn't Think It's Evil') and on their myspace page ('5:15 Train', and the utterly gorgeous 'Horn Song'). I say 'continuing tradition' because the band's 4 song EP, "The Sunniest Day Ever", is available for $3 or $5 (shipping included) depending on where you live- and this EP is probably the most strikingly beautiful release I've heard in the past few months (the songs are the results of a clinical experiment on a girl group, where the girls are fed handfuls of accreted traffic noise and heavy summer haze and are told to sing into the loneliest places: dumpsters, electrical substations, late-night parking lots, etc.). In closing: I'm sort of in love with this band now. Here's the very sweet demo of 'Shame...' that the band put up:
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Shame, Who Wouldn't Think It's Evil
Rumors
**This comment recently appeared on the entry I last wrote about the (seemingly-defunct) Philly band Racecar. I tried to email to confirm the info, but no luck yet. If this is true though, it's pretty fantastic.
"I just happen to have some inside information on the band racecar from Philly. They had broken up for a half of a year and are now back together again. The 10 Songs album (the band's last LP) will be released on vinyl with CDs and booklets inside the packaging sometime before the end of the year (in local record stores). Shows at the TLA R-5 and other places are also in store before the year is up. Look for the review on Pitchfork in upcoming months. New music is on the way."
**Some of the guys from Animal Collective have recently mentioned that they're currently working on the sequencing for an as-yet-untitled 'early live box set', to be released on (the always wonderful) Catsup Plate at some point in the near future. Since "Hollinndagain" is coming out this fall, this box set probably won't be out until next spring, but who knows. As far as content- maybe some unrecorded gems like 'Ice Cream Factory', or some of the live shows from the "Danse Manatee" and "Here Comes the Indian" eras (I'm speculating here). No doubt the packaging will be extravagant and pretty.
Posted by Kevin at July 25, 2006 09:10 AM