Legacy
Many have said that The Sound were not given the recognition they deserved. The Sun Records Music Store said: "The Sound were tragically overlooked in their time and have remained unjustly neglected since." Trouser Press questioned: "It's hard to understand why this London quartet never found commercial success. At their best, The Sound's excellent neo-pop bears favourable comparison to The Psychedelic Furs and Echo & the Bunnymen." Jack Rabid of The Big Takeover magazine stated: "The Sound? Just one of the finest bands of the 1980s."
Shortly before Adrian Borland's death, The Sound's back catalog was remastered and reissued by Renascent Records, a label which was originally founded to perform solely that task. (Thunder Up is the band's only studio album to not be reissued by Renascent.) In June 2006, members of notable British bands held a concert called "The Sound of Adrian Borland"; various guest singers who had been close friends with Borland (such as Mark Burgess of The Chameleons) filled in on vocals.
A biography of Adrian Borland, titled Book of (Happy) Memories, was published. In 2001, a tribute album titled In Passing – A Tribute to Adrian Borland and The Sound was released.
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