Devotion [Deluxe] Sunday (1994)

• 1 Devotion 03:41
• 2 Doomsday 03:48
• 3 Rain 04:20
• 4 Still Blue 04:03
• 5 Picking Flowers 04:27
• 6 Silver Ford 03:56
• 7 Shame 03:36
• 8 Darling, I've Done This Dance Before 04:19
• 9 The Fairground 02:42
• Total Runtime 34:52

Info for Devotion [Deluxe]

Sunday (1994) release ‘Devotion (Deluxe)’, adding three new tracks to their beloved debut album and closing the Devotion era with one final chapter. The band recorded everything in their one-bedroom apartment, writing on the road in London, in the rural Cotswolds, and at home in California. It is deeply personal work, and it sounds like it.

The band puts it plainly: “Three brand new songs and the final chapter in the Devotion saga. Written on the road in London, the Cotswolds in rural England and at home in California, and all recorded in our one bedroom apartment. This is us at our most personal. And now it’s yours. You’re born alone, you die alone and in between we’ll see you at The Fairground.”

The three new tracks are “Shame,” “The Fairground,” and “Darling, I’ve Done This Dance Before.” Focus track “Shame,” premiering on ALT Nation, layers angelic vocals over heavy lyrical territory as Paige sings “It’s such a shame / We wanna be lovers / But they want us dead.” The band describes the song as “when two heavenly creatures are forced apart by small-minded preachers, one takes matters into her own hands. Because sometimes life itself is sick in the head.” It is arresting and cinematic, exactly what Sunday (1994) do best.

Written and recorded in their one bedroom flat, Devotion is a very dreamy, indie EP that will make many a playlist this summer. The title track is the opener for the six-track EP, with lyrics as clever as ever, with Turner singing the memorable line: “you’ve got a past that a preacher couldn’t fix.” Doomsday was another of the early releases and is one of the best on here. For us, the lyrics are a massive part of the attraction of Sunday (1994), with more quirky lines including: “I hear church bells from a nearby funeral/and now I picture you six feet underground.” Newell excels on this track with some explosive guitar riffs.

Sunday (1994)

Sunday (1994)
Written and recorded out of their one-bedroom apartment, writers and band member Paige Turner and Lee Newell enter the outside world like two characters walking onto the screen, their premiere awarded a standing ovation. Along with their enigmatic, anonymous drummer, ‘X’, the sound of Sunday (1994) is cinematic in the truest sense.

Their songs are for bedroom floor tears or the first time two hands touch, and their first body of work captures a love story, and every love story that has ever and will ever happen, in all of its sweet day-dreaming and dramatic beauty.

Sunday (1994) are the result of hundrum Slough (Newell) meeting the sleepy suburbs of California (Turner), the pair haven fallen into each other’s arms 10 years ago, both with very different upbringings yet identical perspectives on the “charade that is modern life”. “I had stumbled around aimlessly for many years, but I wasn’t born until we’d met,” declares Newell. Never knowing when they are being serious or not. Self-confessed cinephiles, their band name ‘Sunday (1994)’ is stylized to resemble a film title – “our biopic would be Dumb and Dumber directed by Federico Fellini.” The name is also a nod to Turner’s Italian heritage with cherished family gatherings on Sunday evenings, where the food was plentiful and the music very loud.

Sunday (1994) continue to see growing support from fans and critics alike, having received love from the likes of The Sunday Times – as their Breaking Act, DORK, The Line of Best Fit, DIY Mag, NOTION, Under The Radar, Wonderland Magazine, Far Out Magazine, 1883 Mag and more. With radio support across BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 6Music, Travis Mills’ Apple Music Show and NME Radio.

This album contains no booklet.