''King of the Sun'' is the fourteenth and final 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.

Critical reception

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. "

Track listing

#"King of the Sun" #"A Million Miles Away" #"Sweet Chariot" #"Turn" #"Mystified" #"Duty" #"Road to Oblivion Part 2" #"Craters on the Moon" #"Mini Mantra Part 1" #"Adventures in the Dark Arts of Watermelonery"

Bonus Disc "Songs from the Stash"

Also included in the 2012 CD release was a bonus disc called ''Songs from the Stash''. These featured nine songs from the post Ed Kuepper period. #"Just Like Fire Would" (from '' All Fools Day'') #"Last and Laughing Mile" (from ''

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'') #"Massacre" (from ''

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'') #"Photograph" (from ''

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'') #"Ghost Ships" (from ''A Little Madness to Be Free'' and ''Prodigal Son'') #"Shipwreck" (from ''Prodigal Son'') #"Fall of an Empire" (from ''

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'') #"Something Wicked" (from ''Howling'') #"All Fools Day" (from ''All Fools Day'')

''King of the Midnight Sun''

In 2014, the album was issued in some territories as a double; the second disc is the same track listing, but all songs have been re-recorded with guitarist Barrington Francis and drummer Peter Wilkinson, who did not appear on the original record.

Personnel

* Chris Bailey – vocals, guitar, bass *Sean Carey – guitar, sound engineering *Geoff Watson – drums *Danny Carmichael – trombone *Simon Ferenci – trumpet *John Glase – harmonica *Any Judd – keyboards, piano *Amelia Rutherford – cello *Fortunato Luchresi – producer

References

{{Authority control The Saints (Australian band) albums 2012 albums Fire Records (UK) albums