Track Listing

1. The Kindness of Strangers
2. The Country Song
3. Silence Will Do
4. Childish Memories
5. You Know Who I Am
6. Without Reason
7. Vicious Tongue
8. Secret Dreams
9. Drink In The Sun
10. Wasted
11. Limbo

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #196621 in Music
• Released on: 2006-04-10
• Number of discs: 1

Dan Cairns, The Sunday Times
"A songwriter of great power and gothic imagination"

Album Description
Frances McKee first attained notoriety as co-founder of Scottish indie legends the Vaselines. The late Kurt Cobain regularly cited the Vaselines' influence, proclaiming them to be his favourite band and even taking his devotion so far as to name his daughter after Frances. Nirvana would go on to cover not one, but three Vaselines songs, most famously 'Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam' on their now legendary MTV Unplugged appearance.

'Sunny Moon' is the debut solo album from Frances McKee following the release in 2000 of Suckle's 'Against Nurture' on Chemikal Underground. An unsettling, haunting yet utterly compelling album, 'Sunny Moon' is an assured work of dark, dense leftfield noise and melancholic future folk. The lastest chapter in the history of Frances McKee sees her gleefully continue on her twisted way. Long may she haunt us.

Customer Reviews

Sunny Moon Frances McKee

Frances Mc Kee is a very talented song-writer and musician with a beautiful voice. This is a very moving, melancholy collection.

Darling Summer Prozac
Hipster Yoga Wench Frances McKee, with that omnipresent musical itch o' hers, has served up a tantalising album of lugubrious gothic folk, jittery Prozac moodiness and acoustic dirgery.

The album is a captivating trek through complex emotional longings, misty memories and deep dark dingy alleyways of the soul. Read: very moving and McKee's BEST WORK.

Highlights include the spine-chilling "The Country Song" and the wistful "Childish Memories" and lowlights tend to fall towards the latter part of the album, when the music becomes too dirgeful and loses some of its originality.

If you liked PJ Harvey's "White Chalk" then you'll adore this. McKee has reinvented herself as the lovechild of Mary Timony, Susanne Vega & Vashti Bunyan. She also cuts a fine rendition of Leonard Cohen's "You Know Who I Am" (the wench has taste!)

Get it. It's cheap now. You have no excuse.

-MJ

Wringing the joy out of melancholy
The title is all you need and the cover art work sets it up. Never mind what Frances McKee has done in the past - ex- The Vaselnes, Painkillers and Suckle - this music, heart-rending yet playful; downbeat yet visceral in it's lyric - is very much of the moment. As ears lean again towards singer songwriters most of whom have little to offer other than emulation, Ms Mckee provides us with at times a fragile yet compelling voice and words which have a deep, lasting narrative - this is her strength and the music just gets better and better the more you listen to it.