Sundown - the end of a long hard day - a time for reflection, a time to sit with your own thoughts, a time to mull things over…to consider loves lost and found, to hatch plans and to get to know yourself……
Sundown have spent the best part of two years writing and recording their debut album. Hidden away in a tiny recording studio in deepest Wolverhampton they have worked tirelessly on their sound. They have taken their songs and built up layer upon layer, adding brass and strings, using new technology; drum loops and samples but never losing sight of their original aims.
Sundown sing about matters of the heart. They create huge sweeping melodies, both epic and grand in scope. They want to make pop music with soul. They want to make music that means something to you.
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MAGAZINE / INTERNET REVIEWS
NME
Sundown are out of step with any musical climate of the past 20 years, Unashamedly epic when all around them are plucking basses made out of broom handles and woolly string, ‘Rewind’ and ‘One More Time’ are fine-cut roar-pop diamonds in 2003’s endless rough of yowly cod-garage tossers.Indeed, it’s been aeons since a Camden gig has ended with a bowel-quaking, seven-minute cavern rock ballad like ‘Cyanide’ and a band has left its instruments throbbing post-coitally rather than smashed to pieces over the drummer’s head for not being in tune for the past half hour.
Mark BeaumontNME
“Brummie popstrels Sundown sound as expansive and cinematic as Beatles-inspired indie-pop ever can on the pleasantly surprising ‘Rewind’”
Mark Beaumont
Playlouder.com
Sundown’s 'Rewind' - Fortune & Glory
"Rather splendid indie-pop, again in the vein of Suede"
Nik Moore
The Beat Web-zine
Ignored and shat upon by fate for the past four years, Birmingham four piece SUNDOWN finally look set to get their time in the spotlight with their debut album A Map Of The World, upcoming on Moseley's Fortune & Glory label. None of your miserable bedsit moping and introspective ballads here, Sundown go for the big epic sweeping strings sound of the Manics, My Bloody Valentine and ELO with a dash of Dexys and the Eels for good measure, while This Is Meltown sounds like it could give The Darkness a run for their money. Preceding the album comes the showcasing single, headed up by the mountainous pop anthemics of Rewind and bolstered by the equally massive Say It Again and the more heads down early Queen influenced driving poprock of Tell Me When It's Over. Whatever the name may say, this sounds like a glorious dawning.
Mike Davies
Designerpunk.com
The artsfest listings tell me that the supporting band are aiming for the "haunting, beautiful and timeless sound," and they prove themselves well enough for me. 'Snowfield' have pulled off the most unusual trick of actually doing something personal with the format of the love song. Rockish guitars are combined with some interesting and moving lyrics and a Jeff Buckley-esque sense of karma and the divine. Really lovely. My new favourite Birmingham band?When 'Snowfield' leave the stage the figure that replaces their singer makes me think of nothing more than the term 'hunter-gatherer.' But their performance is sufficient that I may be able to forgive his slightly Neanderthal appearance, and the fact that their guitarist's dress sense resembles my uncle's in his youth. 'Sundown' are signed to Fortune and Glory records, and have spend forever working on their debut album, provisionally titled 'A Map of the World'. The audience is told to watch out for the new single, and you know I just might. They've got a great pop-rock sound, a good track-listing of anthems to belt out, and get the front rows quite jovially dancing around in appreciation. Which is really quite a contrast to the lethargy I'm more used to seeing in audiences at the Flapper. Hats off to the Hunter-gatherer then. What else can I say?
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