For some reason, I always end up going back to this. There's plenty of other stuff from the same time that I really liked that's gathering dust. Is it the quality of the music or the nostalgia of the Juliana Hatfield crush? Dunno.
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:26rsa9ugb23sReview by Stewart Mason
Sunburn is not just the Blake Babies' best album, it's in many ways the last great college rock album, the album that's the pinnacle of the US indie guitar scene of the late '80s and the album that exemplifies what "alternative" meant in those pre-Nevermind days when the term was actually understood to mean something. Juliana Hatfield, John Strohm, and Freda Love (puckishly billed here as Freda Boner) create a literate, emotionally direct brand of catchy, melodic pop based on the post-punk jangle pop of the '80s, but with a slightly tougher edge, particularly in Strohm's guitar sound. For the first time, Strohm contributes two solo writing credits on which he sings lead, the disturbing "Girl In A Box" and the anthemic "Train," which somehow manages to quote both "Mystery Train" and "I Melt With You." However, Sunburn is primarily the album on which Juliana Hatfield's songwriting prowess first flourishes, and it's possibly her finest collection of songs.
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