On 2001's American Scene, Ashley Park were the lesser, naïve cousins of such variegated indie-pop bands as Beulah and every band Sasha Bell ever joined, content to simply emulate those they admired. Dawdling in what heartier music fans might affectionately call "puss-rock," Ashley Park doused their second album in barrelfuls of feyness, sullenness, aloofness, and non-alcoholic white wine. Their new album, , dispenses with those rather poorly advised excursions into baroque, synth, and general Kindercore pop, and makes a full-length out of 's "The Last Day in the Life of Grand".