Safe Sins (Color Vinyl) EXCESS-NOV-SOV They delivered an album that

They delivered an album that included some of the more simple indie pop songs that had made them famous as well as four instrumental tracks

hiding in my apartment from everyone / Without you I'd take the fifth

On this journey of freedom and escapism

and embracing the perspective a band in such a rare position as this can bring

Safe Sins (Color Vinyl) EXCESS-NOV-SOV They delivered an album thatSafe 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