Sunday (1994) is a dream-pop band based in Los Angeles and composed of three members. Two of them, the Californian Paige Turner and the British Lee Newell, are a couple. The third, the drummer, does not reveal his name, preferring to be called “x.”
Sunday’s proposal (1994) is no mystery, but it is quite immediate – as demonstrated by its virality on TikTok – for what a band of their style usually offers. You can see it for yourself when they perform at the VIDA Festival in Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona) this July.
By “immediate” I mean that the songs from Sunday (1994) do not hide their pop vocation, being as suitable for fans of Mazzy Star as they are of Lana Del Rey, The Cure, Ethel Cain, Cigarettes After Sex or the Cranberries, who obviously had a song called ‘Sunday’, although it dates back to 1993. ‘Tired Boy’ is a star single, for now.
‘Shame’ could surpass it. This is the focus track of ‘Devotion (Deluxe)’, an extension of their 2025 EP, which included equally recommendable singles like ‘Rain’. Sunday’s previous work (1994), self-titled, was also an EP.
The group, which this year has toured Europe with The Last Dinner Party, is set to make 2026 their year, and ‘Shame’ should be one of their greatest assets. The song could not have a more immediate and crystalline chorus, which is not difficult to imagine playing on alternative radio during the 90s, and its dream-pop production is simply immaculate.
We must also talk about Paige’s beautiful voice, which, in a warm and velvety tone, but also nasal and pop, is ideal to convey the lyrics of love and nostalgia from Sunday (1994). ‘Shame’ narrates an impossible romance, judged by society: “We are innocent lovers / turned into villains / because life is sick in the head.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE-PmdulbI
