Album: Consequences of Love (Side 2)
Release Date: March 13, 2020
Genre: Indie rock
Sunday Morning is a band that is hard to pin down. Their sounds flow between the worlds of new-wave, electronic, and punk rock, but ultimately lands in a highly compelling and organic grey area that they possess all to their own. This rotating band of musicians, fronted by Vancouver’s Bruce Wilson, travels through a multitude of musical spaces on Consequences of Love (Side 2). From the spacy opening track, layered with haunting backing vocals and syncopated drumming, to the elegantly ethereal closer and everything in between, this album wields it’s arsenal of influences and transforms them with a remarkably high degree of success.
The record’s opening track, “The War Came To Us”, is an evocative and atmospheric tune that sounds like a Fugazi song played along to Portishead. The track opens up and straightens out by the end into a darkly-tinged indie rock song that leads right into the record’s title track. “Consequence Of Love” is a much more lighthearted and upbeat song that bears a contrast to its lyrical content which dives into ideas of loss, heartbreak, and other consequences of love. The band touches on some slight funk influence as well on “I’m In Love”, the penultimate grimy, pulsing rock song on the album. “I’m In Love” explores young love, toxic relationships, and the complexities that arise from not knowing what is best for yourself. The record closes on “Breathe”, a toned-down, trumpet-led shoegazer track that effectively brings things back full circle.
Whatever Sunday Morning set out to accomplish on Consequences of Love (Side 2), they executed to an impressive degree. This record is layered and complex, both musically and lyrically. It is creative and unique, utilizing a wide range of some already somewhat abstract influences like Iggy Pop and David Bowie, but adapting and translating their sounds into something wholly new and enthralling. This record is a prime example of taking your roots and refining them into something new altogether.
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