The Sun Is Often Out [Blue Vinyl]

THE SUN IS OFTEN OUT contains an unlisted 12th track.
Longpigs: Crispin Hunt (vocals, guitar); Richard Hawley (guitar, vocals); Simon Stafford (bass, piano, Hammond B-3 organ, vocals); Dee Boyle (drums, vocals).
Recorded at Axis Studios, Sheffield, England.
The Longpigs' debut album The Sun Is Often Out is an ambitious, darkly romantic album that owes quite a bit to the modernized anthem-rock of Radiohead. Although the band doesn't quite have Radiohead's talent for making the bombastic seem utterly personal, there are several moments of brilliance on the album -- particularly the singles "Far," "She Said" and "On and On" -- suggesting that their appealingly neo-gothic sonic textures will develop into something distinctive on their second album. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine