Favourite track(s) on SURROUNDED?

[Guillaume]

16 songs on this new Justin Sullivan solo album...impressive.

Which is your big favourite song on this album...or, if you want, your 3 or 5 favourite tracks on it? 

And if possible, explain why! 

My number 1 big favourite, one week later, is still "Sea again"...the gorgeous sweet dreamy voice and melodies...we are in the NAVIGATING BY THE STARS unvierse here!

Second..."1975"...i think the voice lyrics and music flow beautifully on this track.

Third..."Surrounded"...i think that it is a beautiful way to end the album...the simple music works nicely and i especially like Justin's "crooner" (?) voice flying "high" during the song. I think that it is maybe my favourite part of singing from him on the whole album.

Fourth..."Sao Paulo"...i like the dark intriguing and haunting atmosphere of this track. It would be great to use it on a film's soundtrack. Not the same lyrics of course than on the unforgettable "Someone like Jesus"  but a bit of the same kind of slow, haunting "jazzy" atmosphere maybe?

Fifth, ex aequo, because all of them good tracks:
 
"Amundsen", "Akistan", "Stone and heather", "Coming with me", "Clean Horizon", "Ride", "Daughter of the sun"!

It's really interesting to see how we all react differently to the songs on the album. With 16 songs it's quite a lot to listen to and to take in. When Justin sent me his demos in late summer last year, it really took me quite some listens to get my head around it. There were some songs that instantly spoke to me and some that did not touch me at all.

[Guillaume]

I love all the tracks...but my stand out ones are...in no part.order...Sea Again,Sao Paulo,Dirge,Coming With Me and Unforgiven.........ps does Sao Paulo remind anyone else of Leonard Cohen or is it just me ??..

Yes, "Sao Paulo", very cohen-esque!!

[Johnz]

Sao Paulo, Sea Again and Clean Horizon are still my favourites at this stage but that will probably evolve over time. I also really like Dirge mostly because it's so different and it somehow works. Clear Skies, 1975, Unforgiven, Stone and Heather and Surrounded are great, too.

So pretty much the whole album

[Guillaume]

Yes it's a coherent, steady album, like NBTS it has no "lows",  bad tracks. I find it interesting that "Sao Paulo" is around the half of the album, because it has a so different mood and style of music than the rest of the album.

[cthulhu]

I have listened now to the whole album once with headphones on and it was a wonderful ride. The production and the mix is very cool, it sounds so intense and close and wide..

I love to start the album with Dirge, love the humming voice, it's so vibrating and resonating and the instrumentation of that song is so different and sounds just great.
Some songs have already begun to appear in my mind, the melodys coming up from out of nowhere.

To name some favourite tracks at the moment, this would be:
Amundsen, Coming With Me, Stone And Heather, Unforgiven, Sea Again, Clear Skies, Sao Paulo

If i would to a playlist i would have it like this:
Dirge
Amundsen
Stone and Heather
Unforgiven
Coming with Me
Sea Again
Sao Paulo
Clear Skies
Ride
Surrounded

[Tarsier]

On the basis that I simply cannot stop listening to these: Unforgiven, Sao Paulo, Stone and Heather, Sea Again. And Dirge. What an opening…….. I used the first napkin during the first song when first time listening to this album

[Simon73]

I still cannot answer that but as usual it grows at each listen

[Simon73]

will think about that. but have to say that i ve seen this double vinyl for 30 euro in berlin. no reasons to me why a vinyl even double should cost 30 euro. sorry. for the rest amazing lp as it was great the first. I had told Justin myself. just wanted to share. in the end i ordered the vinyl myself paying 27 euro anyway