Gladie Safe Sins

Release date:
February 28, 2020
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Safe Sins, the debut record from Philadelphia band Gladie, begins with a prayer: "I close my eyes, pretend to pray/That this shame would just fuck off today," sings Augusta Koch, her familiar timbre floating atop a wave of bleary-eyed synths on opener "Pray." It's a gentle, hymnal introduction to a record that ducks from jangly power pop to plucky indie rock, scrappy electronic psych jams to swaying shoegaze. The record borrows it's title from Koch's personal poetry theme book: Safe Sins is a place of safety, acceptance, and progress. It is a record about isolation, loss, and dismantling shame and grief through self-analysis.

Tracklist:
  • 1. Pray
  • 2. When You Leave the Sun
  • 3. A Pace Far Different
  • 4. Twenty Twenty
  • 5. Even at Your Easel
  • 6. Cosmic Joke
  • 7. Paper Bags
  • 8. Overlooking the Lake
  • 9. Parlor
  • 10. Choose