Static & Silence is the third and final album by The Sundays

The Sundays

The Sundays were an English alternative rock band. The band formed in the late 1980s and released three albums in the 1990s.-Career:The band's beginnings came with the meeting of Harriet Wheeler and guitarist David Gavurin at university. Wheeler had played gigs with 'Cruel Shoes' an early...

, released in the UK by Parlophone

Parlophone

Parlophone is a record label that was founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon. The British branch was formed in 1923 as "Parlophone" which developed a reputation in the 1920s as a leading jazz label. It was acquired in 1927 by the Columbia Graphophone Company which...

 on 22 September 1997, and in the U.S. by Geffen

Geffen Records

Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operated as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group.-Beginnings:...

 on 23 September 1997.

Guitarist and leader David Gavurin says that at this point the band had mellowed somewhat with age, and that he and wife Harriet Wheeler have been influenced more by Van Morrison

Van Morrison

Van Morrison, OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely...

, which gives some songs on the album that folk-rock bent ("Folk Song" even quotes from Morrison's "And It Stoned Me

And It Stoned Me

"And It Stoned Me" is a song by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It is the opening track on Morrison's third solo album, Moondance, which was released in 1970.-Composition and recording:...

"). The couple had also been listening a lot to Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...

 songs and '60s

1960s

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 French film

Cinema of France

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 music.

Kevin Jamieson, who performed some percussion work on the album, also joined The Sundays during their UK and U.S. album support tour as a backup guitarist. He is perhaps best known for his prior work as the lead singer for Jim Jiminee

Jim Jiminee

Jim Jiminee was an Indie Pop band in the late 1980s in England. While active they released 1 LP and 3 EP vinyl records.-History:Jim Jiminee was founded in September 1986, releasing their first EP "Do It on Thursday" in 1987 with Cat & Mouse Records...

.

UK edition

1. "Summertime" – 3:34
2. "Homeward" – 3:49
3. "Folk Song" – 3:04
4. "She" – 3:07
5. "When I'm Thinking About You" – 4:17
6. "I Can't Wait" – 2:23
7. "Another Flavour" – 3:18
8. "Leave This City" – 4:24
9. "Your Eyes" – 2:30
10. "Cry" – 4:05
11. "Monochrome" – 4:15

U.S. edition

1. "Summertime" – 3:33
2. "Homeward" – 3:48
3. "Folk Song" – 3:04
4. "She" – 3:06
5. "When I'm Thinking About You" – 4:17
6. "I Can't Wait" – 2:22
7. "Cry" – 4:06
8. "Another Flavour" – 3:18
9. "Leave This City" – 4:23
10. "Your Eyes" – 2:29
11. "So Much" – 3:29
12. "Monochrome" – 4:14

Japan edition

1. "Summertime" – 3:34
2. "Homeward" – 3:48
3. "Folk Song" – 3:03
4. "She" – 3:07
5. "When I'm Thinking About You" – 4:17
6. "I Can't Wait" – 2:22
7. "Another Flavour" – 3:18
8. "Leave This City" – 4:23
9. "Your Eyes" – 2:29
10. "Cry" – 4:05
11. "Monochrome" – 4:15
12. "Through The Dark" – 4:25
13. "Gone" – 3:53
14. "Nothing Sweet" – 3:02

Chart performances

Chart	Position
Australian Albums Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	45
New Zealand Albums Chart	33
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	10

Lead single "Summertime" charted at #15 in the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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, and at #41 in Australia

ARIA Charts

The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...

. Second single "Cry" peaked at #44 in the UK Singles Chart.

Personnel

• Harriet Wheeler — Vocals, string
  String instrument
  A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones...
  
   arrangements and orchestration, brass
  Brass instrument
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   and flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
   orchestration
• David Gavurin — Guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , Hammond organ
  Hammond organ
  The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...
  
  , piano
  Piano
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  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  , string arrangements and orchestration, brass and flute arrangements and orchestration
• Paul Brindley — Bass
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• Patrick Hannan — Drum
  Drum
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  s
• Dave Anderson — Hammond organ, piano
• Kev Jamieson — Hammond organ, piano
• Martin Ditcham — percussion
• Dave Pulfreman — percussion
• Audrey Riley
  Audrey Riley
  Audrey Riley is a cellist and string arranger based in the UK. Riley trained at the Guildhall School of Music with Leonard Stehn and was a cellist for Virginia Astley from 1983 to 1986 and a one-time auxiliary member of The Family Cat. She has been a member of the post-minimalist band Icebreaker...
  
  — string arrangements and orchestration
• Martin Green — brass and flute arrangements and orchestration

External links

• The Sundays complete discography
• Geffen Records' SUNDAYS page