Do you remember where you were when you heard your new favorite band? That rush of emotions flows through us like gentle electricity as we embrace Sunday (1994) as a permanent part of our daily listening. The British-American dream-pop trio, with future stardom scrawled across our hearts, released their debut album last spring, and now set out across North America for an inaugural headlining tour that this evening (May 7) arrives at the intimate Brighton Music Hall in Allston.
The provocative band, with a lush, ‘gazing melancholy in its sound, is centered around Englishman Lee Newell (who we have covered before in former lives, and even booked at the pill at Great Scott back in the day) and Los Angeles’ Paige Turner.
There’s a golden, sun-kissed nostalgia to these songs, which blend jangle-pop, shoegaze, and mainstream pop magnetism to awe-inspiring effect, and our current fave is the ethereal “Stained Glass Window.” Sunday (1994) say this about it: “[It] is a declaration of love. A personal story about defying the ‘sinful’ label given by old texts and preachers with bad breath. ‘I took some pictures of me and you and I super-glued them over scriptures, so I could worship something true.’”
The band, armed with such enchanting solemn elegance, is set to release new EP Devotion this Friday, so this show is a nice primer for that. Plus, our faves Don’t Tell Iris, a homegrown project formerly known as Little Fuss, open the show in what’s a very inspired booking.
Let us pray on a Wednesday.
SUNDAY (1994) + ALISA XAYALITH + DON’T TELL IRIS :: Wednesday, May 7 at Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave. in Allston, MA :: 7 p.m., all ages, $35.25 :: Event info :: Advance tickets
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