Sunday 8PM

Sunday 8PM is the second studio album by the British band Faithless. It was released in September 1998. The title refers to a time when the party is over. The album cover shows the Bluebird Theater in Denver, Colorado, United States.

  • 3.1 Commercial success
  • 3.2 outcouplings
  • 3.3 criticism

Publications

Original version

Sunday 8PM / Saturday 3AM

Number of titles

  • Sunday 8PM: 11
  • Saturday 3AM: 10

Term

  • Sunday 8PM: 57:30
  • Saturday 3AM: 54:10

Sunday 8PM / Saturday 3AM is published in October 1999 re-release of Sunday 8PM. The CD "Saturday 3AM " is also included, which includes remixes from Sunday 8PM.

Tracklist Saturday 3AM

Pinkpop Edition

In June 1998, published in the Netherlands, a special edition of the album with a bonus CD that includes four live recordings from the Pinkpop Festival the same year.

Musical Description

The album does not differ according to laut.de much from its predecessor. As described slow House grooves are in the foreground, and Maxi Jazz ' monotonous chant unfolds along with multi-layered synthesizer faces a " hypnotic effect ". These bonds come from trip -hop and soul. According to Rolling Stone is the album " languorous grooves, soft beats and sparse computer effects" ( Ernest Hardy, German: " sleepy grooves, smooth beats and barren computer effects ").

Reception

Commercial success

In the German charts Sunday rose 8pm at # 6 and stayed there for two weeks. 2000, rose again for a week in the German charts. In the UK it reached # 10 in the charts in the Swiss charts it was number 9

Outcouplings

The album includes hit singles such as God Is a DJ, the No. 1 ranked in the U.S. Hot Dance Music / Club Play charts, Take the Long Way Home and Bring My Family Back. From the latter song 1999, a version was released with a sung by Sabrina Setlur German verse.

Criticism

The Rolling Stone claimed, that the album was " a little too neat and antiseptic " ( Ernest Hardy, German: " a little too neat and antiseptic "). The album has been compared to Massive Attack and Portishead, whose innovation but was denied him, and received 2.5 / 5 points. The Allmusic Guide accused Sunday 8pm, he lacked the crucial grooves and ideas to be more than "a random, standard dancefloor beats and record with redundant hoary ideas" (Michael Gallucci, German: " any standardized dance floor plate with circuitous beats and grizzled ideas ").

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