Suuns – Zeroes QC – VINYL LP

Montreal’s Suuns possess a rare trait in rock music: restraint. They use it like an instrument, which makes their debut full-length ‘Zeroes QC’ as unsettling as it is wonderfully exasperating. It’s immediately apparent in album opener “Armed for Peace,” a track that starts off like a robot breaking down in a hot desert; the song’s mechanic beat plods like iron-shoed footsteps as the melody of a wheezing synth mirrors the crackling sound of old transistors and circuitry being cooked in the sun. It’s deceptively lulling, the tension almost unnoticeably wrenching up and up until the track unexpectedly opens into a barrage of nose-diving guitar riffs and crashing drums – yet the band still stays locked on the song’s linear, forward-motion direction.

Tracklist :

1. Armed For Peace 03:37
2. Gaze 03:56
3. Arena 05:11
4. Pie IX 03:16
5. Marauder 01:49
6. Sweet Nothing 07:03
7. Up Past The Nursery 03:22
8. PVC 03:39
9. Fear 01:58
10. Organ Blues 03:44