Suuns - FICTION EP '2020

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SUUNS are future-oriented. New sounds, new techniques, new ways of thinking;
above all, new environments are the lifeblood of the band. Whether in a
sweltering studio in Dallas with John Congelton, self-recording in Montreals
storied Breakglass Studio, or playing acoustic instruments at Hotel 2 Tango, the
group’s environment has always had an indelible impact on the sound of
whatever future SUUNS are imagining at the time. And true to form, here on
FICTION EP, SUUNS are exploring fresh processes as a result of their current
surroundings and global circumstances. 

On FICTION, new sounds and sonic directions are fashioned out of old. A
year-long period of limited resources and contact inspired the band to reflect
on the various environments in which theyve created music over the years: to
comb through their previous sounds and creative approaches, and fuse them
together with new ideas, ultimately producing a sort of future/past alchemy.
FICTION EP is as much a project of curation as it is one of creation: sifting,
re-imagining, and re-framing, sometimes completely disassembling and then
building from the ground up. Each song is a live-off-the-floor recording that
was then taken into isolation and re-worked. 

But as much as FICTION EP is a project born of introspection and reflection, its
equally one for which SUUNS sought inspiration from outside. Longtime friend of
the band Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart), bringing relentless claps
and buzuks, leads SUUNS through BREATHE, while Amber Webber (Lightning Dust)
sings a mournful siren song on the penultimate track, DEATH. Finally, the ghost
of Frank Zappa lends the band his fervent societal diagnosis, as relevant today
as it ever was, on TROUBLE EVERY DAY, the EPs black North Star. 

Zappas darkly prophetic message, repurposed from 1966 to meet our moment, is an
apt referent. These dualities -- confluences of past and future, of
introspection and influence -- are what defines FICTION EP. Produced from old
remnants, it is entirely new; done in relative isolation, and is also something
of a live album. The songs have been meticulously reworked, and yet the entire
collection feels deployed with hardly any reflection, done in one breath. Its
the sound of SUUNS regrouping, and then poised, and then driving towards the
future.

Tracklisting:
01. Suuns - LOOK (3:32)
02. Suuns - BREATHE (feat. Jerusalem In My Heart) (2:31)
03. Suuns - PRAY (4:33)
04. Suuns - FICTION (3:19)
05. Suuns - DEATH (feat. Amber Webber) (2:58)
06. Suuns - TROUBLE EVERY DAY (3:10)

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