The Sundays: Rating the Albums
Submitted by ash_campbell on Tue, 08/03/2004 - 12:45
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- 1. Static and Silence (1997)
- A pretty tremendous album with a great opener (Summertime) that never lets go. It’s a rather impressive collection of songs that are breezy, but have a multi-layered sound and complexity that works without being overwhelming or discordant. Cry, Leave This City Behind You, and the haunting close Monochrome all add up to make this a wonderfully relaxing disc.
- 2. Reading Writing and Arithmetic (1990)
- Not as complete as Static and Silence, this does have some great numbers, and the first half of the album is spot-on, especially Hideous Towns. The second half is a bit of a let-down, but overall, this is still great work.
- 3. Blind (1992)
- A reasonable group of songs that is probably most notable for its lack of great song. Instead, the strong point is the flow of numbers, that at times makes it hard to know when one track has ended and another has begun. That remake of Wild Horses to close the disc is a little weird.
The Sundays are a British band that is very happy to do the rock and roll thing on their own terms; between their second and third albums, they took five years off, so that lead singer Harriet Wheeler and guitarist David Gavurin could marry and have a child. Gotta love that ability to walk away and come back when they want. Here’s how their albums rate.