Ambient Country Explorers SUSS Discover a Populated Landscape on New LP Birds & Beasts
Pilun ti 5 taun, Birds & Beasts<pfseg id="0">, dina Northern Spy Records, manggihan trio lingkungan berbasis di New York digangsungkeun leuwih luhur, populating nu stark, soundcapes éterial jeung aréa primal of sound diinspirasi ku siklus jeung ritme tina dunya di sakuliah urang.
<pfseg id="0">"Hiji hiji kali, éta ningali kawas stark, landscapes badag nu urang geus dipintalkeun saméméh geus dimimitian ngawengku ku sedikit panas makhluk," nyebutkeun Bob Holmes (mandolin, gitar, harmonika, violin). Tapi, anjeunna nambahkeun, "Ieu éta teu taman Eden jenis hal." Pat Irwin (gitar listrik, resonator gitar, keyboard) nambahkeun, "Ieu pikaresepeun kana kelemahan dunya di sakuliah urang.
Birds & Beasts pollows on the heels of SUSS' acknowledged 2022 self-titled double album, diwanohkeun ku Pitchfork salaku "musik nu nyebarkeun dunya nepi ka titik luhur-lonesome, quintessence pastoral nu teu ngarobah sapertos éta gradually buka jeung ditutup, telescopes jeung retreats." Sakumaha dina jaman saméméh, band ieu ngagabungkeun sintésis ambien, loop, jeung suara kapanggih jeung instrumenasi Américana leuwih tradisional pikeun ngahasilkeun naon Aquarium Drunkard ngagambarkeun salaku "musik country, mutated jeung nyebarkeun di sakuliah horizon - musik terbuka pikeun jiwa terbuka."
Tapi lamun horizon di dieu leuwih luhur - leuwih Gulf Stream ti Grand Canyon - dina tarik primordial tina track kayaning “Birds” jeung “Prey,”, nu ngabalukarkeun duanana ketidaknyamanan alam jeung sosial, Birds & Beasts <pfseg id="0“Flight,”, “Overstory” jeung “Migration.” Rising that SUSS recently released with Australian banjoist Andrew Tuttle, the tracks on Birds & Beasts are generally longer, with fewer elements and a greater sense of space.
As always, the band’s discovery of new horizons evolved organically. When it comes to defining the next step in their journey, “the music is the articulation,” says pedal steel guitarist Jonathan Gregg. “We’re not sure where we’re going, but we know when we’ve arrived, and it’s never the same place twice.”
Indeed, some tracks simply take longer to find their way than others. “Migration,” for example, dates from the early days of the band and is the album’s sole track to feature the late Gary Leib, who passed away suddenly in 2021. “We always loved the track but we never found the right fit for it,” says Holmes. "However, as we were making what was to become Birds & Beasts, it became obvious that the track was just waiting for us to come around to its way of thinking. You just need to listen to the music closely to hear what it’s always been trying to tell you.”
Join SUSS on their journey as they keep their ear to the ground on Birds & Beasts, on Northern Spy Records.
SUSS Tour Dates:
July 11 - Brooklyn, NY - The Sultan Room - Tickets
July 19 - Eugene, OR - Hult Center for the Performing Arts - Tickets
July 25 - Nashville, TN - The Blue Room - Tickets
July 26: Louisville, KY - Whirling Tiger - Tickets
July 28 - Nelsonville, OH - Nelsonville Music Festival - Tickets
July 29 - Chicago, IL - The Hideout - Tickets
Grup instrumen berbasis di New York SUSS muterkeun bentuk unik musik instrumental kadang-kadang disebut "ambient country," ngabalukarkeun kualitas droning tina musik country jeung pangaruh film Barat. Menggabungkeun sound-lonesome of pedal steel guitars jeung harmoniques jeung synthesizers meditatif jeung loop, musik band ieu kudu loba ka Brian Enokolaborasi jeung Daniel Lanois pikeun dina skor film tina Ennio Morricone jeung Ry Cooder. Debut band anu dirilis diri taun 2018, Ghost Box, jadi hit surprise di bawah tanah jeung pangalusna playlists ambien, ngabalukarkeun band signing jeung Northern Spy. band terus ngembangkeun dina sound signature maranéhanana jeung loba rilis tambahan on label, kaasup rilis 2024 tina Birds & Beasts.
Anggota aslina band ieu kaasup Bob Holmes jeung Gary Leib, (duanana anggota grup gelombang anyar Rubber Rodeo dina '80-an) ogé Pat Irwin (sahaja ti the B-52s , Eight Eyed Spy jeung the Raybeats), Jonathan Gregg (Jonathan Gregg & the Lonesome Debonaires, The Linemen) ) jeung insinyur / produser William Garrett.
Rilisna kahiji di Northern Spy Records, Ghost Box (Expanded), diwanohkeun ku majalah Pitchfork salaku "a landscape vivid dimana nada mellifluous ngabalukarkeun rahasia jeung sihir hiji landscape dongeng." 2019 jeung 2020 ningali rilis tina High Line jeung Promise, na ningali éta dina loba tina Top Ten Ambient album daftar taun masing-masing. 2021 ningali leungitna Garrett jeung leungitna leungitna Leib, sanggeus SUSS ngéléhkeun EP posthumous Night Suite jeung Heat Haze, which included tracks recorded just before his death. 2023 saw multiple releases from SUSS, including Winter Was Hard jeung Across the Horizon, which together with the previous EPs were released as the self-titled double album SUSS, heralded by Aquarium Drunkard as “a majestic double album, full of slow motion twang, suspended synth drones, and gorgeous swells of pedal steel. This is country music mutated and stretched along a vast horizon, open music for open souls.”
2023 also saw the release of a collaboration with the artist Andrew Tuttle — a 30-minute track called Rising on the Longform Editions record label. SUSS’ fifth album on Northern Spy Records, Birds & Beasts, was released in 2024 and shows the band heading off into a new direction, populating their stark landscapes with the creatures, cycles and rhythms of the world around them.
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