6.0
Avg Score
2
Opinions
#44,481
All Time
11
Tracks
“Sunny Day Real Estate have always hinted that they want to become emo-core’s answer to earnest, pre-Achtung Baby U2. On their fourth studio album, The Rising Tide, the Seattle trio finally sounds like it. The grandiose production, by Lou Giordano (Goo Goo Dolls, Live), matches the quasi-mystical visions mapped out in the songs. Jeremy Enigk […]”
“Are you ready to admit the Peter Gabriel factor? Or, even more frightening, the Yes and Rush factor? Not only does *The Rising Tide* dip its toes into sucking whirlpools of late 70s arena prog, but it stands as one of those albums that forces listeners to ponder the inevitable third act of even their most fond bands, wherein Our Hero finds his fate in a bloody climax of vocal effects, drums solos,”
