release date: Feb. 1996
format: cd (RAIN 017CD)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,52]
producer: Kim Hyttel
label: Cloudland - nationality: Denmark
Track highlights: 1. "Reason to Carry On" - 2. "Here Comes April" (4 / 5) - 6. "Son Ray" - 7. "She's Radiant" - 9. "The Goodnight Song"
3rd and final studio album by Danish post-punk band Greene follows two years after Lovers' Lingo (Apr. 1994). The band has been reduced to a quintet consisting of the two brothers Olesen, vocalist Peter H. and guitarist Henrik together with lead guitarist Marco de Andreis, bassist John Krog Hansen, and with drummer Flemming Borby. New producer Kim Hyttel is also credited keyboards, as recording enginner and mixer of the album. All nine songs are credited Peter H. and Henrik Olesen.
Stylewise, they continue from the predecessor with their own blend of post-punk, indie pop and jangle pop, where the band appears as standing with one foot in a primarily British rock-soil echoing bands like Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen, and especially The Sound / Adrian Borland with strong bonds to early post-punk, and on the other hand, they also seem inspired by Velvet Underground / Lou Reed, The Go-Betweens, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The album stands as the boldest rock-oriented of their three albums.
I really enjoyed this one when it came out but also soon tired from the simplistic melodies and especially from what I found was too obvious sources. Still, I never quite understood why they didn't find their way to a broader crowd 'cause this was almost like listening to my international idols, and when was it ever forbidden to copy international stars? That's how music evolves! Perhaps, they came too close to original artists, or they simply were too un-Danish? I loved a song like "She's Radiant" but also found it almost like an indiscreet cover of something by Borland.
Anyway, Minor Sun is this band's best album, but without attracting national interest the band split later in '96 and the brothers Olesen initiated their longer-lasting duo-project Olesen-Olesen, and Borby, Krog Hansen, and de Andreis later formed the band Labrador, which along the road ended up as Borby's solo project.
