- baroque pop, chamber pop, chamber folk
- 43 min
- 11 tracks
- Divine Comedy Records Limited
Rainy Sunday Afternoon is the thirteenth studio album by Northern Irish pop band The Divine Comedy. It was released on 19 September 2025, via Divine Comedy Records in LP, CD, cassette and digital formats.
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Intimate, character-led, spare and classical in form.
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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- The Arts Desk3/5 ★
- Clash9/10
- God Is in the TV8/10
- Hot Press8/10
- The Irish Times4/5 ★
- Louder Than War4/5 ★
- Mojo4/5 ★
- MusicOMH4.5/5 ★
- Rolling Stone France4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone Germany4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Achilles4:10
- 2The Last Time I Saw the Old Man4:21
- 3The Man Who Turned Into a Chair3:33
- 4I Want You4:46
- 5Rainy Sunday Afternoon3:59
- 6All the Pretty Lights3:40
- 7Down the Rabbit Hole2:49
- 8Mar‐A‐Lago by the Sea2:53
- 9The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter4:49
- 10Can’t Let Go2:33
- 11Invisible Thread5:20
11 tracks, 43 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Divine Comedy
- Label
- Divine Comedy Records Limited
- Released
- September 19, 2025
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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