When Everything You Have Just Goes Away

A Sunny Day In Glasgow “Passionate Introverts (Dinosaurs)”

A week back I was playing this game of coming up with song titles which could essentially sum up the major theme of an artist’s body of work, and I think that A Sunny Day In Glasgow ranks among the artists who have already done that for themselves. (See also: Andrew W.K. with “Party Hard,” Daft Punk with “Robot Rock” and/or “Digital Love,” and Sonic Youth with the album title Experimental Jet Set Trash and No Star.) If you ignore the “(Dinosaurs)” part of the title — it’s hard, I know! — “Passionate Introverts” perfectly communicates the aesthetic of Ben Daniels’ music better than any genre description could. Basically, this is the sound of deep, fiery nearly incoherent emotion hidden behind a thick, nearly impenetrable wall of shyness and largely blissful solitude. I love that Ben has taken this music further away from indie rock and further into ambient and dance music — on one hand, it separates them more from garden variety shoegazers, but it also serves to highlight the chilliness and subdued glee central to their appeal.

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