Bottom Lounge
1375 W Lake St
312.666.6775
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A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Photo: Ever Nalens
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Thursday Nov 19, 2009 (8pm)
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$10 / $7 advance
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It seems like there are more shoegaze bands in 2009 than there were in 1987, but when a record like A Sunny Day in Glasgow's Ashes Grammar comes along you can't help but root on the revival. With grad-school commitments and broken feet conspiring against them (not the most rock 'n' roll problems, but obstacles nonetheless), the Philly dream-poppers delivered a 22-track epic of fuzzy, synth-washed perfection. Traces of Factory, Creation, and 4AD float along blurred melodies and ambient atmospherics; and when ASDIG gets catchy on gems like "Failure," they sound like Lush if, instead of forsaking gauzy shoegaze for hooky Britpop, they had grafted them together into a rapturous pop hybrid.
