SUUNS Schallplatten & CDs

Review: On their seventh album, The Breaks, SUUNS embrace limbo and craft their most emotionally resonant and sonically rich work to date. The Montreal trio of Ben Shemie, Joseph Yarmush, and Liam O'Neill dive deeper into pop instincts than ever before here while also pushing their experimental rock boundaries. With O'Neill at the production helm, they explore loops, synths and MIDI instruments that might well draw to mind Tangerine Dream and certain downtempo trip-hop acts. The album was forged over two years of touring and remote collaboration and blends whispered intimacy with vast soundscapes best exemplified in tracks like 'Doreen' and the superbly adventurous title song.

Review: Delightfully distorted, heavy footed and prone to putting the pedal down, SUUNS drop a new coloured vinyl EP that's just as vivid on the ears - next level, call it what you like stuff that gives about as much of a shit about genre lines as you do. What counts is it sounds exceptionally good, and rather unique, which is saying something for our era, albeit typical for the band in question.

From the white noise textures of 'Look' to the punk rage and menacing voice over of 'Trouble Every Day' it's a wise idea to buckle up from the get go. Whether it's the strange post punk-cum-acid disco of 'Pray', 'Breathe''s gypsy punk stylings or the frozen, twisted harmonies of 'Death', there's more happening in six tracks here than you could normally reasonably expect from ten.