Static And Silence - The Sundays

First I should declare i'm a big sundays fan. I would also say this is The Sundays best album to date. Harriet Wheeler's voice is tinged with sadness, making it much more heartfelt and emotional than the previous two albums. There some extraordinary songs, like 'Homeward' and 'When I'm Thinking About You' and 'Monochrome' the song from which the album takes its name, is an insightful recounting of the moonwalk. The arrangements are beautiful, full of great hooks and guitar lines, but never quite getting "nice to the point of nasty". The songs are almost all growers. One or two of them might grab you first time, ...  Read the complete review

The Sundays then - even though I'm a recent convert to their small following of fans there isn't that much I've learnt about the people behind the music, on the album I'm writing an opinion on there is a web-address (www.parlaphone.co.uk/sundays) for a site with all information about the Sundays but whenever I try to visit all I get is a 404 message so if it seems that I don't know who I'm talking about please remember we're working with limited information here people! Anyway what was it I was talking about again? oh yeah! It was the album static and silence by the sundays!! So its definitely a good album, but a little background ...  Read the complete review