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SUUNS

IMAGES DU FUTUR (SECRETLY CANADIAN)

SUUNS - IMAGES DU FUTUR 58683
format:
1 LP
release:
08.03.2013
label:
SECRETLY CANADIAN
item ID:
58683
barcode:
0656605026015
SUUNS release their second full-length album, ,Images Du Futur" via Secretly Canadian. After touring North America and Europe extensively throughout 2011, the band spent the winter and spring of 2012 writing & recording in their hometown, Montreal.

Their sessions were concurrent with the Quebec student protests that started in February of 2012 and continued through September of 2012.

Set against a backdrop lead singer Ben Shemie calls "a climate of excitement, hope and frustration," SUUNS aimed for an expansion of the musical ideas on their critically acclaimed first record, "Zeroes, QC".

Lauded especially by Pitchfork and NME, the former saying "few bands this young are operating on quite this scale, and fewer still have the brass-- and the patience-- to pull off a big, glitzy, complex record like Zeroes QC," and the latter declaring them 2011's Best New Band, SUUNS have deepened their approach, using minimalist techniques to create maximalist works.

Produced once again by Jace Lasek from BESNARD LAKES, "Images Du Futur" blasts out of the gate with "Powers of Ten," laying out a sort of manifesto for the record in the very first lines: "Got it together/I read in the paper/all of theses strangers/stranger and stranger.../No, no, no, no, how you try and remember/how all of these pieces/all fit together." Shemie says of the process, "As a band we were trying to look at our music from further and further away, seeing more details in the picture as we expanded the landscape." The first single, "Edie's Dream," starts with a single bass line repeated from which layers build & rise - first drums, then a wash of white noise; echoes of guitar, then chanted vocals.

The song's clever shifts are jazz-touched and delicate, almost subliminal. It all makes for a stark, skeletal boogie - more an astral projection than a song, "Edie's Dream" shows us where SUUNS are headed.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. POWERS OF TEN
  • 1.2. 2020
  • 1.3. MINOR WORK
  • 1.4. MIRROR MIRROR
  • 1.5. EDIE'S DREAM
  • 1.6. SUNSPOT
  • 1.7. BAMBI
  • 1.8. HOLOCENE CITY
  • 1.9. IMAGES DU FUTUR
  • 1.10. MUSIC WON'T SAVE YOU