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
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

 * 1) "King of the Sun"
 * 2) "A Million Miles Away"
 * 3) "Sweet Chariot"
 * 4) "Turn"
 * 5) "Mystified"
 * 6) "Duty"
 * 7) "Road to Oblivion Part 2"
 * 8) "Craters on the Moon"
 * 9) "Mini Mantra Part 1"
 * 10) "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.


 * 1) "Just Like Fire Would" (from All Fools Day)
 * 2) "Last and Laughing Mile" (from Howling)
 * 3) "Massacre" (from Prodigal Son)
 * 4) "Photograph" (from A Little Madness to Be Free)
 * 5) "Ghost Ships" (from A Little Madness to Be Free and Prodigal Son)
 * 6) "Shipwreck" (from Prodigal Son)
 * 7) "Fall of an Empire" (from Everybody Knows the Monkey)
 * 8) "Something Wicked" (from Howling)
 * 9) "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