Quite simply one of the most brilliant albums of recent years. The superb musicianship and crafting of beautiful melodies combined with breath taking production and mixing. The album gets better on every listening, as you delve deeper into it's enormity of abstract sounds and sweeping melodies. Crunching beats on songs such as 'Bring My Family Back' and 'Killer's Lullaby' complement the sorrowful but intelligent mournings and proverbs of Maxi Jazz. The album tells stories with it's music, and although listening to individual tracks is fine, lie down in a darkened room, with a pair of head phones listening to the devine grooves of Faithless is a pleasure that should be experienced by all.

Tracks:

2. Bring My Family Back - Track starts with an interlude from Maxi Jazz linking it to the garden. "My world has become everything i've become, contained in the hum between voice and drum." speaks Maxi. The album contains many more little proverbs and quirks on life from the mind of Maxi. The track itself is a 'ballard' of sorts, Maxi speaking the woes of a man losing his family, and thus his life. Soulful backing singing covers the scathing beat, a song of woe and upset that sends a real shiver down your spine.

3. Postcards - A song about touring life. Contains a sample of the 3rd Gymnopedie by Eric Satie, that the songs works around. The beat becomes more and more heavy as the song builds and builds until the last chorus explodes into a firework of chords and singing. Dido provides the vocals - the song uses parts of 'My Lover's Gone'.

4. Hour Of Need - Jamie Catto's writting effort on the album (remember 'Don't Leave' and 'Angeline' on Reverence?). Sparkling chorus really completments Catto's voice.

5. Take The Long Way Home - One of the singles released from the album. Contains a fantastic string riff. The song is one of Faithless 'dance-floor-fillers', a heavy dance beat, being the basis of all the workings in the melody and rhythms the invariably proceed. A song that sounds just as good in a club as on a pair of headphones in your bedroom.

6. Why Go? - Features the vocal talents of the legendary Boy George. Another slightly mournful song, telling the tale of a lover trying to win back his lady (or man in George's case). The simplistic everyday imagery portrayed in the song gives it a real 'rainy-Sunday-evening feel', put fits in beautifully within the context of the album. Again, we here a gospal backing vocal.

7. She's My Baby - Not one of the best on the album, as the meaning of the song is a little confused. A pleasant enough effort.

8. God Is A DJ - An absolutly stomping single that lit-up the dances floors of many of the largest clubs - and still does. The tune is sheer bliss.

9. Hem Of His Garment - Another well-crafted song that beautifully bridges the gap between the clubism of GIADF and S8PM. Dido again provides vocals.

10. Sunday 8PM - Another interlude track, and quite a beautiful one at that.

11. Killer's Lullaby - Possibly the best track on a superb album. Maxi Jazz returns and his voices grinds through a tale of love, murder, suicide and jealousy. An incredible harpsichord solo is the icing on the cake.

Possibly the best album I have ever listenind to.

First it was Reverence, then came Sunday 8PM. If you liked the first album, don't hesitate buy this one. In the beginning you may get dissapointed because this CD is very different than Reverence. But listen to it a few times, and you might even feel that this is better. Not som much trip-hop as in the first one, they have added som soul to it. Postcards is awesome. The same is Take The Long Way Home, God Is A DJ, and Killer's Lullaby. GET THIS ONE NOW.

Reverence was a brilliant debut by the group Faithless. They mixed soul music, slow trip-hop raps, and house music in a way that no other electronic group had done. They continue this type of mix on Sunday 8PM. There is a feel to Faithless's albums that is very melancholy and depressing, yet at times uplifting.

Sunday 8PM continues this distinctive sound. Songs like Bring My Family Back and Postcards are very personal songs and are pretty sad. Other songs like God Is A DJ and Take The Long Way Home have become house music staples.

But one songs stands emotionally above all of the other songs. Killer's Lullaby is a very very emotional and hurtful song about a man's deranged thoughts after the loss of his girlfriend to another man. This song touches me so deeply that I can barely even listen to it any more. My lifestyle is very similar to Maxi Jazz's, being a pacifist and Buddhist. And a year ago I was having a VERY hard time getting over a girl. I tried to go on with my life and be happy, but I would have dreams that were hauntingly similar to the story being told in this song. The way Maxi Jazz describes watching his ex and her new boyfriend is very chilling and scary - yet very real to me. This song is an amazing piece of work and the CD is worth the price for this song alone.

The remix CD (Saturday 3AM) is pretty hit and miss. Some of the mixes are decent, but some of them give the songs a very cheesy house music feel to them. The Nightmares On Wax mix of Killer's Lullaby is good and bad. As a fan of N.O.W. I love the way they give the song their own feel. It has a very smooth and layed back feel to it, like all of N.O.W.'s other songs. But all of the emotion and pain in this song seem to have been lost in the shuffle. This CD does include a semi-new song called Thank You that is performed live. This song is only semi-new because it is usually performed as an intro to Take The Long Way Home and has the same atmosphere to it.

Overall you can't go wrong with Sunday 8PM, and everyone who likes Techno music should probably own a copy. As for Saturday 3AM, it is worth the extra couple of bucks if you are a fan of techno music and Faithless.

A very fine record. This combines techno beats, instrumental passages, lengthy club tracks and rap vocals with sophisticated and modern instrumental sounds to rate as one of the best recent albums (it dates from 1998). I agree with the other reviewers about Bring My Family Back - this is an exceptionally well written and performed track that features the voice of Maxi Jazz. The other brilliant tracks are God Is A DJ , which has an awesome, exciting sound and a great rhythm , and Take The Long Way Home. Why Go features Boy George on vocals and is a mid-paced song, while Dido appears on the tune Hem Of His Garment. I also like opening track The Garden , an organic slow techno instrumental. Faithless are one of the best bands around , as they have many talents . Get a copy of Sunday 8 PM , and also of their follow-up Outrospective (2001), which is nearly as good.

Faithless is a band from the UK that is becoming more well-known these days because of Dido. Her brother, Rollo, is the leader of this group along with Maxi Jazz and Sister Bliss. Sunday 8pm is a great listen all the way through with the highlight being the track, God Is a DJ. This is an unbelievable track that would get anyone dancing. Dido's song, "My Lover's Gone", is used in Postcards, which is one of the best tracks. She also sings on Hem of His Garment. Even Boy George guest vocals on this CD singing on Why Go? The Garden and Killer's Lullaby are other outstanding tracks. If you like techno/electronica music and especially Massive Attack as well as Dido, then you need to buy this CD.