SUNDAY DRIVING is one of the most beautiful songs in Between the Stars and Waves. A great opener - simple yet sweeping - it has that Britpop touch that signifies Rico Blanco's fascination with Radiohead, Coldplay and like bands. Nevermind that they ignored their last album lately. Even I, as a fan, got to the point of exhaustion from them because of their mediocre outings. But the release of Sunday Driving made me miss them and re-realize the genius of Rico Blanco.
The video is an edgy animation in the same way of The Dissociatives' first video (forgot the title), Coldplay's Trouble, and Oasis' All Around The World.
Amazing surrealism. As the title suggests, the boys, animated and all, are driving along a road and in the end gets submerged in the sea. Plus you can't miss the searing background. All in all, it compliments the atmosphere of the song. The images embody the whole album since it instantly reminds us of the inlay in Between the Stars and Waves. I wonder who directed it. I'd like to see it again, or better yet, have a copy of it. It's really impressive.
I've always been a Rivermaya fan - more than any other local bands.
And with a video like this (by far their best), it just revives my faith in the band.
