Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid
by Elefant
  • Record Label: Kemado
  • Release Date: Apr 8, 2003
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 23 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 23
  3. Negative: 2 out of 23

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  1. ronem
    Jun 22, 2004
    10
    this band is 80's thru and thru. let me just tell you all something out there--there is no strokes in this band. the strokes don't even come close to this band. this band sounds like themselves--their own sound--with the 80's being reborn in a different light.
  2. D
    Feb 6, 2004
    10
    I thought it was great. I hope this album takes them far.
  3. Nick
    Apr 10, 2004
    10
    One of the best albums I've heard in quite some time.. not fully experienced until seeing them live, takes it to a whole new level.
  4. mercili
    Jun 19, 2005
    10
    splendid
  5. nichs.
    Oct 14, 2003
    10
    What put me over the top on this album, though it can come off as slightly generic, was seeing the band live. Diego believes his hype, and he makes you believe it, too. Feelgood records are few and far between.
  6. MarkK
    Sep 10, 2003
    8
    a band truly "on the verge" of something big
  7. matth
    Sep 29, 2003
    9
    A little retro plus a little strokes, adds good times!
  8. miker
    Oct 25, 2004
    10
    great cd
  9. Eddie
    Oct 29, 2004
    10
    I'm obsessed with this cd! Misfit is an amazing song. I can't wait to see these guys live...
  10. MelbaS
    May 26, 2004
    10
    From the voice to the guitar and the lyrics. It rocks.
  11. JessieR
    Aug 23, 2004
    10
    My buddy got me a copy of this cd earlier this week and I haven't been able to stop listening to it, in fact I am listening to it right now. I love very much so how Diego is a fan of the cure because when I had first heard the cd and told my friend how much I liked I explained to her that to me it sounded like The Cure meets Incubus or 311 . I absolutley love it.
  12. alisonb
    Mar 2, 2005
    10
    love them and love the cd!!!
  13. Mark
    Nov 16, 2004
    8
    This is great. Angular Strokes/NYC vibe meets melodic (sometimes wrought) early-mid 80's British indie. On first listen, it reminded me of really early James material -- that same kind of energy.
  14. GustavP
    Jan 23, 2004
    10
    El disco es perfecto la combinación de sonidos es magnífica, suena todo a una mezcla de varios grupos de los 80 y aires nuevos como Placebo, El cantante está muy guapo, si hasta parece Robert Smith, versión más afeminada, Amo a éste grupo. Gustav Pazzi
  15. MusicMaven
    Dec 28, 2005
    7
    Elefant bring a light touch to their well-crafted, anglo-80's revivalist songs. The rhythm section maintains a solid backbeat while the guitar arpeggios ebb and flow. The synths provide twinkling countermelodies while frontman Diego Garcia croons his lovelorn lyrics. It's a tasteful job for sure, but it can get too mannered and emotionless at times.

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Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Q Magazine
    40
    In a world where Interpol already exist, it's hard to get too excited about the twitchy Anglophilia here. [Dec 2004, p.136]
  2. Rolling Stone
    70
    A great album that sounds like it could have been part of the Eighties British Invasion.
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  3. Splendid
    80
    Though it isn't the staggering atom bomb that was Turn on the Bright Lights, Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid is intermittently brilliant and wholly accomplished, establishing Elefant as more than a flash in the pan.
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