Scribble Mural Comic Journal

fronted by identical twin sisters lauren and robin daniels and masterminded by their brother ben, a sunny day in glasgow have made a name for themselves with synth-laden pop songs reminiscent of my bloody valentine or the jesus and mary chain. after a while ever gave up to focus on pictures, but ben continued on, bringing in his sister, robin, on vocals. after another short while, sister lauren was brought in to fill out the sound and the group began to record in earnest on ben's new laptop with a nice new condenser mic. in march of 2006 they self-released an ep titled, "the sunniest day ever", which was met with a great deal more radio-play and press than any of them had ever expected. the ensuing attention motivated the three to record like crazy and the end result was edited and assembled to create the band's debut lp, "scribble mural comic journal". using mandolins, banjos, noise, samplers, lots of cuttin' n pastin', and all of the normal band instruments, philadelphia's a sunny day in glasgow adds lush female vocals and dance-y rhythms to make dreamy pop music. distorted guitars alongside robin and lauren's vocals glisten for thirteen storied tracks on "scribble mural comic journal." the album succeeds in marrying cocteau twins' other-wordliness, jamc white noise, the best aspects of early aphex twin, and the jangle of "strawberry wine" era mbv to create pop music that somehow makes sense despite making no sense.