Scribble Mural Comic Journal


Scribble Mural Comic Journal is the debut studio album by American indie rock band A Sunny Day in Glasgow. It was released on February 13, 2007 by Notenuf Records. Ruined Potential Records reissued the album on LP on August 5, 2008.

Background and recording

Scribble Mural Comic Journal was recorded from January to August 2006 by A Sunny Day in Glasgow, at the time consisting of siblings Ben, Lauren and Robin Daniels. It was recorded at Ben Daniels' apartment in West Philadelphia and the Daniels siblings' parents' houses in Abington. The album also incorporates sounds recorded in the streets of London in 2005.
The Scribble Mural Comic Journal tracks "The Best Summer Ever", "C'mon" and "A Mundane Phone Call to Jack Parsons" were first released as the opening three tracks on A Sunny Day in Glasgow's 2006 debut EP The Sunniest Day Ever.
Several outtakes from Scribble Mural Comic Journal were later released on the band's 2007 EP Tout New Age.

Music

Jeremy D. Larson of Pitchfork wrote: "Scribble Mural Comic Journal is the sound of an email with the subject line 'FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: dream pop.' It’s a slightly radical, distorted definition of it, one beyond chiming 4AD guitars and gossamer vocals, disassembled and rearranged in a space somewhere between a parasomnia hallucination and a club at the bottom of a lake."

Critical reception

In 2018, Pitchfork ranked Scribble Mural Comic Journal at number 30 on its list of the best dream pop albums. "A song like 'Lists, Plans' could scatter away into the night, but it’s this formlessness, this broken-mirror sound that speaks to their rightful place in the dream pop canon."

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.
A Sunny Day in Glasgow
Additional musicians
Production
Design
  • Naomi Donabedian – design
  • Ever Nalens – artwork