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The Witness marks a shrewdly offbeat left turn, and shows SUUNS in their most comfortable, candid state. Self-recorded and self-produced over the majority of 2020, a year of strife, solitude and reflection, The Witness finds the band holding a magnifying glass over their own default state of playing and performing. It’s a swift departure from previous album Felt, and exults in harvesting haphazard ideas in their embryonic, demoed versions, as if letting loose a glorious fireworks display into the heavens.
Pour un groupe qui existe depuis treize ans et qui a tourné aux quatre coins du monde, il y a un moment où le voile doit être levé. Jusqu'à présent, les rockeurs expérimentaux se sont complus dans le mystère comme une silhouette disparaissant dans la brume, proposant des albums qui se reposent confortablement dans l'ambiguïté, le détachement et les sous-entendus. Mais ces derniers temps, SUUNS semble plus à l'aise à l'idée de dévoiler ses propres rouages. "C'est un truc très geek", explique le chanteur/guitariste Ben Shemie. "Mais nous ne nous engageons jamais vraiment sur un certain type de tonalité. Qu'il s'agisse d'une tonalité majeure ou mineure, il y a toujours une sorte d'évitement de ce à quoi on s'attend. The Witness, le cinquième album de SUUNS, marque une fois de plus un virage à gauche astucieux et décalé. Pour un groupe de cette nature, le principe de base est toujours d'aller au fond des choses ou de sortir de sa zone de confort. D'une certaine manière, cela se vérifie sur The Witness, bien que l'on puisse dire que ces huit mouvements montrent SUUNS dans son état le plus confortable et le plus franc. Auto-enregistré et autoproduit pendant la majeure partie de l'année 2020 - une année de conflit, de solitude et de réflexion
-, The Witness montre que le groupe tient une loupe sur son propre état de jeu et de performance par défaut
The Witness marks a shrewdly offbeat left turn, and shows SUUNS in their most comfortable, candid state. Self-recorded and self-produced over the majority of 2020, a year of strife, solitude and reflection, The Witness finds the band holding a magnifying glass over their own default state of playing and performing. It’s a swift departure from previous album Felt, and exults in harvesting haphazard ideas in their embryonic, demoed versions, as if letting loose a glorious fireworks display into the heavens.
With the departure of Max Henry as a full-time member in 2018 and Shemie now living an ocean apart in Paris, a fresh challenge manifested for the trio to find each other again, both socially and creatively. More than any other SUUNS record, The Witness employs a jazz mentality of designing a continuous vibe over the notion of separate chapters. There’s a level of relaxation, of accepting the band’s primal instincts, and a concentrated attempt to maximize and revise said instincts. Yarmush elaborates: “It was a conscious decision to make the album sound like one song. We wanted to calm down a bit, even during the mixing process: our notes were simply ‘you have to settle down’. I couldn’t technically explain what I meant by that, but the songs needed to settle down. We were basically trying to hold back all the bombastic tendencies and make things sound very subtle.”
For a band known for its cryptic magnetism, The Witness marks SUUNS’ most generous, stripped-down and affecting work to date. “There’s always this restraint in SUUNS: the question of ‘how long can we hold off?,” explains Shemie. “I think it’s beautiful that way because it always brings out something unexpected. But if you’re willing to stick with us – at a show or through our music in general – it will pay off. It might take a while to get there, but we will drop a beat for you eventually. I love that we’ve been able to stick to the minimal side of things, and just let it breathe.”
The Witness is out September 3rd.
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