The Rising Tide

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This article is about the Sunny Day Real Estate album. For the Fort Minor album, see The Rising Tied.

The Rising Tide

Studio album by Sunny Day Real Estate

Released

June 20, 2000

Recorded

Dreamland Recording Studio, West Hurley, NY

Genre

Alternative rock
Emo

Length

52:06

Professional reviews

Sunny Day Real Estate chronology

How It Feels to Be Something On
(1998)

The Rising Tide
(2000)

The Rising Tide is the fourth and last studio album by Sunny Day Real Estate. It was released on June 20th, 2000.

It was released in Japan on January 24, 2001 with an acoustic live version of "Television" as a bonus track. This was the band's first album not released on Seattle record label Sub Pop Records.

The statue on the cover of the album is Vancouver's "Bronze Angel", located at the Canadian Pacific Railway Station (British Columbia). The bronze war memorial was erected in 1921 to commemorate Canadian Pacific Railway employees killed during World War I. The sculptor was Coeur de Lion McCarthy.

[edit] Track listing

"Killed by an Angel" – 4:55
"One" – 4:09
"Rain Song" – 4:03
"Disappear" – 4:09
"Snibe" – 4:29
"The Ocean" – 4:50
"Fool in the Photograph" – 4:09
"Tearing in My Heart" – 5:07
"Television" – 4:31
"Faces in Disguise" – 6:02
"The Rising Tide" – 5:37

[edit] Recording Sessions

There is a series of "Making Of" videos on YouTube, which feature the band rehearsing. There are two circulating outtakes from these sessions ("Eye of the Storm" and "Holiday"), as well as a demo version of "The Ocean", posted on the band's site in 2000.