''Sea When Absent'' is the fourth

studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...

by American

indie rock Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the mu ...

band

A Sunny Day in Glasgow A Sunny Day in Glasgow are an American shoegazing band formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Formed in 2006, the band has undergone many line-up changes since then, with Ben Daniels as the only constant member. Background A Sunny Day in Glasgow ...

. It was released on June 24, 2014 by Lefse Records. The recording of ''Sea When Absent'' was financed through the

crowdfunding Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people, typically via the internet. Crowdfunding is a form of crowdsourcing and alternative finance. In 2015, over was raised worldwide by crow ...

platform

Kickstarter Kickstarter is an American public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". As of July 2021, ...

. The album could be

streamed Streaming media is multimedia that is delivered and consumed in a continuous manner from a source, with little or no intermediate storage in network elements. ''Streaming'' refers to the delivery method of content, rather than the content it ...

through ''

Pitchfork A pitchfork (also a hay fork) is an agricultural tool with a long handle and two to five tines used to lift and pitch or throw loose material, such as hay, straw, manure, or leaves. The term is also applied colloquially, but inaccurately, to th ...

''s Advance service from June 16 to June 23, 2014.

Recording

While it was widely reported that the members of A Sunny Day in Glasgow were never in the same room while making ''Sea When Absent'', the band has clarified that this was not the case. Band member Ben Daniels said: "I think that's an angle that's kind of over-played, because for most of the recording we were all definitely in the same room. We live in different cities, but we would meet up in

Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

to go to the studio together. Then we'd go back to where we lived, and keep working on it, so there was a little bit of both."

Critical reception

'' accorded ''Sea When Absent'' a "Best New Music" designation; reviewer Lindsay Zoladz found that A Sunny Day in Glasgow had produced a more sonically abrasive work than their previous releases, "but without abandoning the ambiance that makes them so distinct."

Track listing

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. A Sunny Day in Glasgow * Ben Daniels * Annie Fredrickson * Jen Goma * Adam Herndon * Josh Meakim * Ryan Newmyer Additional musicians * David Kain – trumpet * Joseph Kille – violin * St. Spanky's Children's Choir for the Deaf – choir vocals Production * Ben Daniels – mixing, additional

recording A record, recording or records may refer to: An item or collection of data Computing * Record (computer science), a data structure ** Record, or row (database), a set of fields in a database related to one entity ** Boot sector or boot record, ...

* Jen Goma – additional mixing and recording * Thomas Kee – mastering * Josh Meakim – additional mixing and recording * Jeff Zeigler – recording, additional mixing Design * Ben Daniels – photography * Sabrina Franz – photography * Annie Fredrickson – photography * Adam Herndon – design, layout * Ever Nalens – photography * James Rickman – photography * Corey Jacob Williams – photography

Charts

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2014 albums A Sunny Day in Glasgow albums Albums recorded in a home studio