Jupiter Sunrise

Album: Under a Killer Blue Sky

Sounds Like: what you should have been listening to outside on a perfect day when you were still just a kid.

Jupiter Sunrise is one of those bands that has already gained some mainstream momentum and could have already signed with a label by now. But at the time of this album's release (2004) they hadn't, and thus it qualifies to be posted on Soundsuck. The band is currently working on a new album which I know little about, but what I do know is even though Under a Killer Blue Sky is a few years old, it still has some cool artwork and a handful of good alternative tracks. There's nothing groundbreaking about Killer Blue Sky, but as the cover art might suggest, most of the songs hold an intangible quality of "wonder" that we often loose in our grown-up lives while commuting to work, paying taxes, or being dumped.

Why They Don't Suck: If you can appreciate music from artists who are just getting started but show great promise then you'll like them. In this first album Jupiter Sunrise sounds like a standard alternative band, but their lyrics are what separate them from your average alternative artist and make this disc worth a listen.

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