Blog: Idolator

Back in 1997, when I was a critic for CMJ , I led off my review of a new album by vintage Britpoppers the Sundays with the following sideswipe at another band: "In the five years since their last album, [the Sundays] watched the Cranberries swipe their sound and turn it into three obscenely popular and dreck-filled albums." I can't front: I had a soft spot for the Cranberries' light-as-air Top 10 smash "Linger." But I could never get past the fact that the Sundays, a [...]