Start Static will forever remind me of freshman and sophomore year high school. It’s where Sugarcult sort of started and ended for me in terms of any sort of regular listening cadence, and outside of the off the cuff nostalgic spin of “Stuck In America” once a year or so, it’s safe to say it’s been twenty years since I’ve listened to this album. In fact I would actually put good money on never having listened to this album front to back ever– the singles were really as deep as I ever got. And then I got to thinking this could be the last time I ever listen to this album front-to-back ever again. It’s the first and the only full experience of Start Static I’ll ever have in my life.
It’s funny how life works like that sometimes. You experience a piece of something deeply, reflect on the full picture years later, contextualize it, come to peace with the process and move on, never quite knowing whether or not you will ever experience something like that ever again.
Standout Songs: “Bouncing Off The Walls”, “Hate Every Beautiful Day”, “Pretty Girl (The Way)”
