King of the Sun
# King of the Sun

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

Professional ratings :

| Review scores ||
| - | - |
| Source | Rating |
| The Music | positive |
| Faster Louder | positive |
| 100% Rock Magazine | |
| Beat Magazine | positive |

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 Howling)
* "Massacre" (from Prodigal Son)
* "Photograph" (from A Little Madness to Be Free)
* "Ghost Ships" (from A Little Madness to Be Free and Prodigal Son)
* "Shipwreck" (from Prodigal Son)
* "Fall of an Empire" (from Everybody Knows the Monkey)
* "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
