The Rising Tide
...new album released june 20, 2000...
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(back)
**front image from Time Bomb's SDRE pages...not a s133p3r image!
Track Listing...
* killed by an angel ... see lyrics
* one
* rain song
* disappear
* snibe ... see lyrics
* the ocean
* fool in the photograph
* tearing in my heart
* television
* faces in disguse
* the rising tide
The Rising Tide Lyrics Page
Album Info...
Here it goes...my opinion of the new album. I started out as a Diary fan back in 94. Then it all progressed as we fans know, but somehow the Sunny
Day Real Estate I knew was always in the picture. Maybe it was the SubPop connection, or the time frame...who knows, but it is apparent to me that How It Feels,
as the last album with SubPop, changed many things about the band.
In the years between LP2 and HIFTBSO, many things in the world and in my life changed. It stands to reason that the same happened to the worlds of the three remaining
Sunny Day band members. I am not trying to say that I understand what went on with their lives...but I can say that along with the everyday changes came the musical
changes that, in the long run, would bring them back together and inevitably reshape the sound of the band.
The new album, The Rising Tide, stands as a symbol of the transition from old to new. Remnants of a younger SDRE sound is apparent in songs like Television,
which have an almost poppy beat. However, the new introduction of synthesizers, and the somewhat controversial drum beats make the band I hold close to my heart sound like a completely different, more musically evolved being.
To make a long story short, Sunny Day Real Estate is continually changing. For those of you who love HIFTBSO, you will love The Rising Tide. For those of you who have never heard Sunny Day Real Estate, buy the album.
It is worth more than all the Rush comparisons. For an ever evolving band, this album lives up to its name. It seems to me that this album is another jump in the direction of a new sound, and with any hope, that destination will always be a striving point...somewhere in the distance for Sunny Day Real Estate.
FYI
The sound bite at the beginning of Tearing in my Heart is apparantly part of a French poem. It can be interpreted as follows: "le vent ride la surface de l'eau" (in french)
or "the wind wrinkles the surface of water" (roughly the English translation)...this is information as posted to the mailing list by Joel at http://members.aol.com/veerchasm.
billboard review
buddyhead review
cmj review
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another billboard review
line-noise.com
the met magazine (click on music, and then SDRE)
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