Blue Sky Theory

In 1998, the band--then called Wave after Wave--released the demo/debut album "People You Meet While You Fall". Drippingly dark and mellow, this album exhibits the simple, moody roots of Wave after Wave. It's charm is "old school" gothic rock nostalgia; a sad, muted, and sometimes sarcastic atmosphere pervades every song. Although the opening track, Sex and Spiders, and Darkened--the very first song the co-founders composed together--have aged poorly in retrospect and detract from the rest of the album, little black gems like Sobbing Bed, Love in Sleep, and Charnel Hope smooth out these creases. The apocalyptic sentiments and themes on deranged love carried on in Soulmates and Good Place, No Place started with PYMWYF. This debut is especially valuable for its ballads, which Blue Sky Theory still occasionally use in live sets.