Sun, Sun, Sun is the rope-strong, luminous follow-up to The Elected's critically acclaimed 2004 debut, Me First. Recorded largely in motel rooms while singer/songwriter Blake Sennett was on tour with his other band, Rilo Kiley, the album is propelled by the kind of unsettled, exploratory impetus that is only native to the American open road. While portions of the album were formed in proper studios like the all-analog Hard Drive studio in Southern California, Sennett, along with bandmate Mike Bloom, recorded and produced the majority of this masterfully soulful creation in environments they were passing through. And, it's evocative of those places and perspectives: "I'll listen to it and think, "That was recorded in a hotel in Missoula! That, we did ... read more