I Made A List

A Sunny Day In Glasgow “Lists, Plans” – There are few moments of lucidity on A Sunny Day In Glasgow’s debut LP Scribble Mural Comic Journal, and even those seem delirious and disconnected from reality. The structure of its centerpiece “Lists, Plans” implies a narrative, but like the rest of the songs on the album, it’s all abstracted sensation without any concrete details aside from some vague allusion to lists in the otherwise incoherent and ghostly vocals of the Daniels sisters. The composition cuts between sections like scenes in a film, conveying movement through time and space, as well as some recognizable but barely understood drama as the track progresses. Ben Daniels’ command of texture and gift for intuitive musical storytelling is remarkable — he really ought to be up to his neck in offers for soundtrack work by the end of the year. (Click here to pre-order it from Notenuf.)

Elsewhere: Just before closing up shop and moving to a new address, Mike Barthel gives us Clap Clap’s Greatest Hits; The Reeler offers up The Top Ten Worst Top Ten Movies Lists of 2006; and Paul O’Brien riffs on the absurdity of Dark Speedball.