Barnes & Noble
's
Sunday Music
series, described as "a lifestyle compilation series from
Big Helium
records" features 15 genre-leaping tracks that revel in the reflective nature and recuperative powers of the most gentle (for some) day of the week.
Volume 1
relies heavily on stalwart,
adult alternative rock
workhorses like
Joseph Arthur
,
Rufus Wainwright
Patty Griffin
and
Peter Gabriel
to bring the calm, but it's peppered with enough obscure musical fruit from the likes of
indie pop
darlings
Susanna & the Magical Orchestra
(
"Condition of the Heart"
),
She's Spanish, I'm American
"These Long Summer Days"
), and colorful
worldbeat
acts such as
Sidestepper
"Deja (Mary)"
) and
Sara Tavares
"Balance"
), that as a whole, the collection ebbs and flows in time with the kind of lazy Sunday we all wish we could procure. ~ James Christopher Monger