Just three songs into A Sunny Day In Glasgow’s set at Great Scott on Thursday night, site a drenched fan materialized at the front of the stage hoping they had just started. She had just arrived, seek braving a pop up torrential downpour that no one, ampoule not even the band, realized had happened.

It cut off the annual firework display and Boston Pops concert at the Hatch Shell. But inside, a rainy day in Boston was improved by A Sunny Day In A Glasgow.

The band, which could get away with saying they are from “parts unknown” or “a few couple of continents,” kicked off their tour in support of their buzz-grabbing new record Sea When Absent.

The set began quite ambitiously, with the lead single off the new album, titled “In Love With Useless.” It’s an obvious earworm with an easy sing-along chorus: “Don’t stop, sometimes I feel so happy, I’m in love with useless.”

Set sequencing can all but kill the momentum of the show. I quite honestly believed would happen by kicking off a set with a new favorite, but that didn’t happen. The set

rolled on to new album cuts, as well as old favorites. One other highlight was the late-set song “Oh, I’m A Wrecker,” which has a bursting and bombastic hook.

Lead singer Jen Goma’s vocals were saccharine, but comfortably masked in layers of synth. For a band that records their albums in separate parts across the planet, it is still cohesive in a live setting.

Caténine served as the sole opener due to Sneeze dropping out citing illness. The four-piece delivered a blend of hazy, dream pop.

Check out A Sunny Day In Glasgow’s remaining U.S. tour dates here, and stream a song from Caténine below.