Sunny Border Blue

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Sunny Border Blue

Studio album by

Kristin Hersh

Released

March 12, 2001

Recorded

April–October 2000

Studio

Stable Sound, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA

Genre

Length

51:05

Kristin Hersh chronology

Sky Motel
(1999)

Sunny Border Blue
(2001)

The Grotto
(2003)

Sunny Border Blue is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Kristin Hersh. The album peaked at #93 on the Official UK Albums Chart.^[2] It also peaked at #50 on the US's Billboard Heatseekers Album Chart^[3] and, #33 on the US's Billboard Top Independent Albums chart.^[4]

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	81/100^[5]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Drowned in Sound	6/10^[6]
Entertainment Weekly	(A-) ^[7]
Pitchfork	7.8/10 ^[8]
Rolling Stone	^[9]
Tiny Mix Tapes	^[10]

Sunny Border Blue was met with "universal acclaim" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 81, based on 15 reviews.^[5] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 79 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 7 reviews.^[11]

Track listings

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All tracks are written by Kristin Hersh, unless noted

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Your Dirty Answer"		5:24
2.	"Spain"		3:54
3.	"37 Hours"		3:26
4.	"Silica"		4:23
5.	"William's Cut"		4:03
6.	"Summer Salt"		4:06
7.	"Trouble"	Cat Stevens	3:25
8.	"Candyland"		4:02
9.	"Measure"		1:09
10.	"White Suckers"		4:25
11.	"Ruby"		4:05
12.	"Flipside"		3:57
13.	"Listerine"		4:46

Charts

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Chart performance for *Sunny Border Blue*
Chart (2001)	Peak position
UK Independent Albums (OCC)^[12]	12
UK Albums (OCC)^[2]	93
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)^[3]	50
US Independent Albums (Billboard)^[4]	33

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c Phares, Heather. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Kristin Hersh Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Kristin Hersh Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Metacritic Review". Metacritic. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
^ Bell, Amy (March 25, 2001). "Drowned in Sound Review". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
^ Sinclair, Tom (March 17, 2020). "Entertainment Weekly Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
^ Dark, John (March 6, 2001). "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
^ "Rolling Stone Review". Rolling Stone. March 5, 2001. Archived from the original on April 1, 2008. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
^ "Tiny Mix Tapes Review". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
^ "Album of the Year Review". Album of the Year. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
^ "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved September 8, 2020.

External links

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v t e Kristin Hersh
Solo albums	Hips and Makers (1994) Strange Angels (1998) Murder, Misery and Then Goodnight (1998) Sky Motel (1999) Sunny Border Blue (2001) The Grotto (2003) Learn to Sing Like a Star (2007) Crooked (2010) Wyatt at the Coyote Palace (2016) Possible Dust Clouds (2018) Clear Pond Road (2023)
EPs	Strings (1994) The Holy Single (1995)
Singles	Your Ghost (1994) Learn to Sing Like a Star (2007)
See also	Kristin Hersh discography

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