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May 10, 2004
Sunday Driver - A Letter to Bryson City
by Ashley-Kiana
Sunday Driver - A Letter to Bryson City – Doghouse Records
One minute and two seconds of typing. This is how Sunday Driver starts off their album.
The Miami band, on Doghouse Records, came out with their first and only album during February of last year. The full length, A Letter to Bryson City, is composed of 12 tracks, 11 which are actual songs. The band recorded their full length outside of Miami in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina.
Although Sunday Driver started playing the local Miami scene with emo and hardcore bands such as New Found Glory and Shai Hulud, the band itself does not fit into a specific mold of music. A Letter to Bryson City has a strong alternative rock feel to it; but the album goes back and forth between this and other music genres. The album is one of those albums that never gets taken out of your CD player. The music and the vocals can’t really be separated because they wouldn’t sound right individually. Aside from that factor, this album might follow bands, the All-American Rejects and the Get up Kids as “the next big thing.” Tracing Doghouse Record’s history of indie bands gone mainstream, A Letter to Bryson City might push Sunday Driver off the indie sector and into mainstream stardom.
-ashley-kiana
Posted by Ms. Jen at May 10, 2004 11:27 AM
