Counting Crows: Underwater Sunshine – review

(Cooking Vinyl)Counting Crows' first album since 2008 is also their first since leaving the major label that was their home for 16 years. They've been celebrating their independence with a round of online activity – not just the usual free download (of the sleepwalky ballad, Mercy), but a competition that allows a fan to design the album sleeve. All very "now" of them, but it feels like a ploy to obscure the fact that Underwater Sunshine is a covers album. Some of the 15 songs are little-known...

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