The Sundays: Static & Silence [PARLOPHONE]

Why you'll love it

Back on vinyl from Parlophone, with the original 11-song UK running order. 'Summertime' gave the Sundays their highest-charting UK single at number 15 and reached the top 10 of the US Modern Rock chart.

This edition

• The original 11-song UK running order
• Back on vinyl from Parlophone

About the album

By the time Harriet Wheeler and David Gavurin made Static & Silence, the band had, in Gavurin's words, mellowed somewhat with age. The couple had been listening to Van Morrison (you can hear a nod to 'And It Stoned Me' in 'Folk Song'), Frank Sinatra and 1960s French film music, and between them they wrote every song and arranged the strings, brass and flute.

The title comes from the closing track, 'Monochrome,' and the cover photo refers to its subject, the TV broadcast of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. It's a warm, unhurried record, with 'Cry' as the second single and Wheeler's voice as the reason to stay for all of it, and it turned out to be their last. It suits a Sunday morning almost too well; the band's name, it turns out, was a promise.

Tracklist

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Out August 14, 2026 on Parlophone, a reissue of the 1997 album.