GLADIE - SAFE SINS (COLOR VINYL) Vinyl LP

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.

Track List:

1.1 Pray
1.2 When You Leave the Sun
1.3 A Pace Far Different
1.4 Twenty Twenty
1.5 Even at Your Easel
1.6 Cosmic Joke
1.7 Paper Bags
1.8 Overlooking the Lake
1.9 Parlor
1.10 Choose

Label: Run for Cover