| Suuns / Images Du Futur |
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| Album: | Images Du Futur | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Suuns | Added: | 03/2013 | |
| Label: | Secretly Canadian | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-05-27 | Pull Date: | 2013-07-29 |
| Week Ending: | 28 Jul | 14 Jul | 7 Jul | 30 Jun | 23 Jun | 16 Jun | 9 Jun | 2 Jun |
| Airplays: | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 05, 2016: | Time Traveler Music Won't Save You | 4. | Oct 23, 2015: | A Visit From Drum (Sleep Dealer) Edie's Dream | |
| 2. | Apr 12, 2016: | Life Aquatic Sunspot | 5. | Apr 09, 2015: | A Visit From Drum Sunspot | |
| 3. | Dec 04, 2015: | A Visit From Drum (All My Friends Are Animals) Bambi | 6. | Feb 19, 2015: | A Visit From Drum Powers Of Ten |
| Album Review |
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| catherine harris Reviewed 2013-04-05 | ||
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Suuns is an electro-rock band that pairs sleepy, shoe-gazey vocals with classic rock percussion and some pretty trippy synth melodies. Most tracks are mid-tempo and low-key, although they use a lot of dissonance and layering to build tension and spice things up. I kept waiting for them to push their songs a bit more, but for the most part they commit to a minimalist, restrained sound throughout the entire album. The one exception is track 6 where they let loose a bit more, and it really works well. Try: 6, 7, 10. No FCCs 1. (2:53) Huge wall of distorted guitar sound, vocals sound like they’re being sung with clenched teeth, builds with added dissonance and percussion 2. (4:13) Guitar plays the chromatic scale in between spacey vocals and synth verses, slower, simmering 3. (5:54) More melodic, mid-tempo, starts off kind of shoe gaze-y then builds with nice layering of slightly a-tonal/computer-y synth with restrained distorted guitar and percussion 4. (3:57) Heavily distorted, screechy guitar, standard rock beat/percussion, electronic runs/scales give it a psychedelic feel, non-articulated, spacey vocals 5. (4:21) Slower, quiet guitar strumming feels off beat from exposed percussion, lots of different synth blooms and interjections, pretty trippy 6. (4:36)*** Minor, droning vocals over minimal, guitar/synth-driven jam, lots of cymbals, distinct key change half-way through, fades into feedback 7. (4:57)* Stronger rock feel and beat, slightly dissonant guitar melody, diffuse sound, urgent, tense, layered vocals 8. (4:54) Guitar mostly just strums chord progressions, orchestral-sounding synth melodies, spacey, crooning slightly off-key vocals, mid-tempo 9. (3:35) Sustained, layered synth notes, sort of Halloween-y, chords repeatedly build tension then resolve, no vocals 10. (5:56)** Minimal synth beat gradually constructed from multiple layers, builds with melodic, blooming guitar doodles, relaxed vocals, crowd noises in background, really nice | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Powers Of Ten | 6. | Sunspot | |||
| 2. | 2020 | 7. | Bambi | |||
| 3. | Minor Work | 8. | Holocene City | |||
| 4. | Mirror Mirror | 9. | Images Du Futur | |||
| 5. | Edie's Dream | 10. | Music Won't Save You |