THE SUN AND THE MOON - The Sun and the Moon

LP / CD Geffen Records 1988



"After The Chameleons split up in the summer of '87, [Mark] Burgess and drummer John Lever joined with a pair of guitarists to form a new quartet, The Sun and the Moon, which debuted in mid-'88 with an eponymous album that sounds a lot like The Chameleons. Burgess evinces even more imploring emotionality than in the past, and it's a very solid LP, if no challenge to The Chameleons' general brilliance (inventive guitarists Dave Fielding and Reg Smithies are greatly missed). The Sun and the Moon followed that record with the much-improved Alive;Not Dead EP, which sounds like a new group rather than a second-rate Chameleons. More acoustic and dreamy, three of the four songs are gently soothing, and almost submerge Burgess' sophisticated melodies. A raucous, madcap bluster through Alice Cooper's Elected (peppered with speeches from The Prisoner and updated anti-Tory lyrics) closes out the record. Despite this promising relaunch, The Sun and the Moon fell apart in April '89".
(Ira Robbins & Jack Rabid, Trouser Press)

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