So, you (Ben Daniels, bandleader) record an album in your bedroom with your best friend (Josh Meakim, drummer/recording engineer), your twin sisters (Robin & Lauren Daniels), and one lone microphone (a Shure?). You call the arrangement A Sunny Day in Glasgow. It blows some folks' minds with its dreaminess.
Fast-forward to this year, when you decide to ditch the bedroom and record in a large New Jersey dance studio. Then your bassist (Brice Hickey) breaks his leg many times over unloading equipment, and your sister leaves to nurse him back to health. Your other sister then goes to school far, far away. Why are you still happy? Because you still managed to record a consistent album with the same dreamgaze elements that wet all those folks' shorts before, just with some new members. And this time they aren't even related to you (Annie Fredrickson, Beverly Science)! Choice.
The new album's called Ashes Grammar; it'll be available on boring formats and cream/navy colored double vinyl through Mis Ojos Discos, and you can pick up all formats (if you'd like) on September 15.
Tracklisting:
1. Magna for Annie, Josh, & Robin
2. Secrets at the Prom
3. Slaughter Killing Carnage (The Meaning of Words)
4. Failure
5. Curse Words
6. Close Chorus
7. Shy
8. Lights
9. Passionate Introverts (Dinosaurs)
10. West Philly Vocoder
11. Evil, with Evil, against Evil
12. The White Witch
13. Nitetime Rainbows
14. Canalfish
15. Loudly
16. Blood White
17. Ashes Grammar
18. Ashes Maths
19. Miss My Friends
20. Starting at a Disadvantage
21. Life's Great
22. Headphone Space
A fall tour to support Ashes Grammar is in the works, but damned if I know where they're playing yet.
