Artist: Sunday Driver

CD: "In the City of Dreadful Night"

Label: Bakul Bagan Records

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The UK's Sunday Driver take moody, arty pop/rock and infuse it with a healthy dose of world music (specifically Indian) informed style. Despite this the songs heard on their debut, "In the City of Dreadful Night", aren't your typical "folk rock".

The numbers heard here, while serious, are never too weighty or self important. The band has carefully worked in a sense of playfulness and graceful effervescence that never becomes dismissively ethereal. (As the wonderful album art work shows Sunday Driver is more interested in the æther than the ethereal.) Because the music remains accessible and never succumbs to pointless Rocking Out (tm) and meandering jamming the end result is a robust collection of songs that are best described as Modern Psychedelic Pop.

Don't let the P(sych) word scare you off. Like XTC and the Beatles before them Sunday Driver know how to entertain... how to simultaneously make us smile and to think. Sunday Driver is quietly surreal, images and colors bloom in your brain as you listen to their songs.

Recommended

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