King of the Sun
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| King of the Sun | ||||
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| Released | 2012 | |||
| Recorded | Trackdown Studios. Sydney, Australia. | |||
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| Label | Highway 125 (Australia) Fire (UK; released with King of the Midnight Sun) | |||
| Producer | Fortunato Luchresi | |||
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King of the Sun is the fourteenth studio album released by Australian rock music group The Saints. Recorded in Sydney, Australia, the album is a concept album based on a journey home after a hundred-year war.[1] It was the final studio album released by the band in Chris Bailey's lifetime, who would die a decade later in 2022.
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| Source | Rating |
| The Music | positive[2] |
| Faster Louder | positive[3] |
| 100% Rock Magazine |   [4] |
| Beat Magazine | positive[5] |
The album was met with mostly positive reviews from the Australian music press. Patrick Emery from Beat Magazine noted: "With only minor exception, it’s Bailey in his finest whimsical folk-blues guise. The title track has a whiff of literary pretension, its lyrics a set of seemingly non-sequitur statements built around a simple melody and Bailey’s disaffected vocals. Sweet Chariot is arguably the classic contemporary Saints style – a lumbering blues-based pop lick and an aesthetic that sits perfectly with Bailey’s modern day Lord Byron persona. Million Miles Away (La De Bloody Da) would, if attended to in a brutal punk manner, be one of the great garage rock tracks; here, it’s an intriguing acoustic track of surprising depth. "[6]