{"title":"SUUNS BUNDLE","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"safe-in-sound","title":"Safe In Sound (Home Recordings From Quarantine)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"section group\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col span_1_of_2\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" valign=\"top\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%; margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px 6px 8px; background-color: #a9a9a9; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Oswald', sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 100%; text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003eTrack Listing \/ Credits\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px 0px;\"\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 500px; height: 572px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=702099481\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/joyfulnoise.bandcamp.com\/album\/safe-in-sound-home-recordings-from-quarantine\"\u003eSafe In Sound (Home Recordings from Quarantine) by Joyful Noise Recordings\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRob Crow \u0026amp; Family\u003c\/b\u003e - “Philosophy of the World (The Shaggs)” - Music and lyrics by Dorothy Wiggin. Guitar, lead vocals, and interpretation by Rob Crow. Additional vocals by Robertdale III, Yossarian, and Scout Crow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMike Adams At His Honest Weight\u003c\/b\u003e - “False Memory” - Written and recorded at home by Mike Adams Additional lead guitar recorded by Zac Canale at his house Mixed by Ben Lumsdaine in AD’s basement \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eKramer\u003c\/b\u003e - “Send In The Clowns (Stephen Sondheim)” - Music \u0026amp; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. All instruments \u0026amp; voices by Kramer. Produced by Kramer at Noise Miami (aka; Home).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEerie Wanda\u003c\/b\u003e - \"2020\" - Written and recorded by Marina Tadic at home in Nijmegen, NL.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThor Harris\u003c\/b\u003e - “HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa”- Written and recorded by Thor Harris from his home in Austin, TX. Thor Harris played - trumpet , trombone, clarinet, marimba , dulcimer, Kalimba, glockenspiel, harmonium and voice; Anni Rossi - viola; Sima Cunningham - vocals; \u0026amp; Abra Moore - vocals; Monk Parker - baritone sax. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNo Joy \u0026amp; Josh Kastner\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Love Stomp\" - Written and recorded by Jasamine White-Gluz and Josh Kastner at their respective homes in Montreal, Quebec.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDeerhoof\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Dismantle the System\" - Ed Rodriguez: guitar. Greg Saunier: drums, keyboard. Satomi Matsuzaki: vocals. John Dieterich: guitar, bass, vocals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJad Fair + HIFIKLUB\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Staying at Home\" - Pascal Abbatucci Julien – electronic drums; Anthony « Daffodil » Belguise - synthesizers, piano, acoustic guitar; Jad Fair – vocals; Jean-Loup Faurat – guitar, effects; Régis Laugier – bass; Music composed by Pascal Abbatucci Julien, Jean-Loup Faurat and Régis Laugier; Lyrics written by Jad Fair; Produced and mixed at home by Anthony « Daffodil » Belguise; Recorded at home by Pascal Abbatucci Julien, Anthony « Daffodil » Belguise, Jad Fair, Jean-Loup Faurat and Régis Laugier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHelvetia\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Psychic Life\" - Everything done at home by Jason Albertini.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTall Tall Trees\u003c\/b\u003e - \"You and Isolation\" - Written and Recorded by Mike Savino at home. Mike Savino - banjotron, bass, synth, vocals, mixing. Micah Thomas - drums.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eC.J. Boyd + Will Oldham + The Quarantine Choir\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Savory (Jawbox)\" - Acoustic bass guitar, alto clarinet, upright bass: C.J. Boyd; Bass clarinet: Josh Bennett, Arrington de Dionyso, Bruce Lamont, Andy Rayborn; Bassoon: Carly Cassano, Mark Ortwein; Clarinet: Shannon Fields, Thor Harris; Flute: Maxx Katz; Harmonium: Sarah Ruth Alexander; Harp: M. Bailey Stephenson; Marimba: Thor Harris; Oboe: Felix Zimmermann; Lead vocals: Will Oldham; Quarantine choir: Sarah Ruth Alexander, Kendra Amalie, Karl Blau, C.J. Boyd, Sima Cunningham, Madeline Johnston, Julia LiBassi, Adam Matlock, Ko Newborn, Amber Pollard, Lauren Poole, Lilah Rose, Linus Schief, Macie Stewart, Molly Sullivan, Tara Toms, Karima Walker, Andrew Weathers. Song by Jawbox, arranged collectively. Mixed and produced by C.J. Boyd. Everyone recorded themselves in their own homes, and a few had engineering help from their partners: Ates Isildak recorded Carly, Ben Kirby helped record Amber, and Stephen Lucas recorded Sarah.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eKishi Bashi \u0026amp; El Ten Eleven\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Every Day Is A Sunday\" - Kishi Bashi - vocals, synths, violins. Kristian Dunn - basses. Tim Fogarty - drums. Mixed by Drew Vandenberg.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Ophelias\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Grand Canyon\" - Spencer Peppet- vocals, guitar, lyrics; Jo Shaffer- bass; Andrea Gutmann Fuentes- violin; Micaela Adams- drums; mixed by John Hoffman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSound of Ceres\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Enchanter (Demonstration 1)\" - Written and recorded by Derrick Bozich, Jacob Graham, Karen Hover, and Ryan Hover. Mixed by Ryan Hover.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSUUNS\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Indecisions\" - Mixed by Antoine Goulet. Written and performed by SUUNS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDumb Numbers\u003c\/b\u003e - \"On High in Blue Tomorrows (edit)\" - Written by Adam Harding and Thor Harris. Recorded by Thor Harris at home in Austin, TX. Additional recording and mix by Adam Harding at home in Indianapolis, IN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSwamp Dogg\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Southern Soul\" - Writers: Jerry Williams,Bob Jones,Larry Clemon, Bob Jones. Produced \u0026amp; Arranged by Jerry Swamp Dogg Williams and Larry Moogstar Clemons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003egooD fUCK\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Hyenas on Fox\" - Good Fuck is Tim Kinsella and Jenny Pulse. Recorded in Carrizozo, New Mexico and Galatina, Italy. Mixed by Hunter Husar. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOhmme\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Homicidal Hamsters\" - Written\/performed by Ohmme. Thor Harris - percussion, marimba, dulcimer, horns, clarinet, gong, tubular bells. CJ Boyd- fuzz bass. Mixed by Dorian Gehring and Sima Cunningham at Fox Hall, Chicago. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMagic Sword\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Covenant\" - Written and performed by Magic Sword. Recorded in isolation from the shores of oblivion. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eAll tracks mastered by John Hoffman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col span_1_of_2\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" valign=\"top\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%; margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px 6px 8px; background-color: #a9a9a9; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Oswald', sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 100%; text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px 0px;\"\u003eStruggle and isolation often spawn great art. In this strange moment of history, we can't help but see the potential for creation... With all of our artist's sidelined from touring and regular life plans, we decided to commission the artists of our label to record a new song from within their quarantine environment. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe resulting project is called \"Safe In Sound - Home Recordings From Quarantine\". Featuring songs written and recorded while each artist is isolated at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA total of 20 contributing artists include \u003cstrong\u003eSwamp Dogg, Deerhoof, Kishi Bashi \u0026amp; El Ten Eleven, C.J. Boyd \u0026amp; Will Oldham, Helvetia, The Ophelias, Kramer, Rob Crow \u0026amp; his kids, Thor Harris, Mike Adams At His Honest Weight, No Joy \u0026amp; Josh Kastner, Jad Fair \u0026amp; Hifiklub, Tall Tall Trees, SUUNS, Good Fuck, Dumb Numbers, Sound of Ceres, Magic Sword,\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eOhmme\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen we started this project we knew it would be good. 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A year-long period of limited resources and contact inspired the band to reflect on the various environments in which they've 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. \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFICTION EP\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut as much as \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFICTION EP\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is a project born of introspection and reflection, it's equally one for which \u003cstrong\u003eSUUNS\u003c\/strong\u003e sought inspiration from outside. Longtime friend of the band \u003cstrong\u003eRadwan Ghazi Moumneh\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003cstrong\u003eJerusalem In My Heart\u003c\/strong\u003e), bringing relentless claps and buzuks, leads \u003cstrong\u003eSUUNS\u003c\/strong\u003e through BREATHE, while \u003cstrong\u003eAmber Webber\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003cstrong\u003eLightning Dust\u003c\/strong\u003e) 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 EP's black North Star.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eZappa's 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 \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFICTION EP\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Self-recorded and self-produced over the majority of 2020 – a year of strife, solitude and reflection –, \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Witness\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e finds the band holding a magnifying glass over their own default state of playing and performing. It’s a swift departure from previous album \u003cem\u003eFelt\u003c\/em\u003e, which exults in harvesting haphazard ideas in their embryonic, demoed versions, as if letting loose a glorious fireworks display into the heavens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Witness\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, meanwhile, pours SUUNS’ music into a more intricate mold, compelling Shemie to unravel himself lyrically in a much more pronounced fashion. “There’s something interesting about the idea of a collective witness, being a witness to the time we’re living in now,” he reflects. “And the connectedness of what we all have in common. But also, literally: bearing witness to all sorts of things and how that desensitises you. There’s a recurring line that comes back  on the record: \u003cstrong\u003e“I know that you’ve seen it too.”\u003c\/strong\u003e A song like ‘Clarity’ is also about pulling the veil off and seeing things for what they really are. It kind of comes down to being true to yourself and acknowledging what is and isn’t real.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOpening cut ‘Third Stream’ experiments with jazzy brass and prowling piano flourishes akin to Talk Talk’s \u003cem\u003eSpirit Of Eden\u003c\/em\u003e, sounding like a band being profoundly present, being a witness to \u003cem\u003ethemselves\u003c\/em\u003e in some respect. “These songs are a little more expansive-sounding”, drummer\/percussionist \u003cstrong\u003eLiam O’ Neill\u003c\/strong\u003e comments, “And I can imagine that if we get to play them live, they’ll probably be even longer. But that was the general idea, to the extent that we never have an intentionality behind what kind of record SUUNS is going to make. After Max (Henry) left, being ten years in the game, we felt a little bit exhausted by that endless album\/tour cycle. Night after night, we realized: ‘We’re really just playing a bunch of songs.’ With \u003cem\u003eThe Witness\u003c\/em\u003e, we tried to do something a little more immersive and longform. That’s the reason we always loved playing ‘Edie’s Dream’, because it’s like a whole environment you step into. Or just incorporating drones we freely improvised. Those moments were always our favorite parts during live sets. It felt like both us and the audience were part of this whole wave that was happening.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps unintentionally, SUUNS have always been a strangely intimate band, and with \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Witness\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, they themselves became aware of the extent of this. More than ever, SUUNS keeps those spontaneous moments in the album recordings. “We just do that more improvised stuff so naturally live,” \u003cstrong\u003eJoe Yarmush\u003c\/strong\u003e adds. “It’s kind of weird that it hasn’t been a big part of our albums up till now.. We’re trying to embrace that side of the band for sure. That’s also part of SUUNS just being the three of us now.” Though Max Henry had left the band in 2018, he still contributed material to the album,  most notably on ‘Witness Protection’. O’ Neill: “Max is such a brilliant musician, but it became clear he wasn’t into the touring lifestyle anymore. He wanted to go back to school; right now he’s studying music psychology. Which is much more  of what he’s supposed to do.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith one member down and Shemie 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, \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Witness\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e 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: ”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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ethereal ‘Timebender’, which materialized out of vastly disparate parts, still entertains the idea that you’re tapping directly into the band’s inner pulse. ‘Go To My Head’ captures SUUNS at its most outright gorgeous, albeit habitually elusive. “Those guitars at the beginning are very much classic rock, definitely a Fleetwood Mac ‘Albatross’ kind of vibe,” Shemie comments. “I wanted to put that song out last, but I was voted out. It was difficult to put together, because we put a lot of material into this song. It wasn’t like learning three chords and a beat. There are a lot of different parts. Ultimately, it came together beautifully. 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Over the course of ten tracks, Shemie chronicles a wandering soul tangled in its own dark orbit, searching for meaning in a world of stardust and astral mirages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“It’s a soundtrack to a movie that doesn’t exist,” Shemie said of the album’s themes and structure. True to its interstellar themes, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDesiderata\u003c\/i\u003e literally fell from the stars. Its name, derived from the Latin phrase \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ede sidere \u003c\/i\u003e(“from the stars”) bows to the fantastical and galaxy-wide compositions that comprise this ambitious new work. Directly inspired by the British sci-fi novel \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNeuromancer\u003c\/i\u003e, the phrase refers to a street where one can go to get whatever they desire. Continuing to chew on themes of mindfulness and self-discovery with pop-spiked teeth, Shemie wrestles with orchestral flourishes and synth-powered chaos to tell the story of a world beyond conception or reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChanneling his classical background and tutelage under acclaimed composer Ana Sokolovic, Shemie combines string fractals, manipulated vocals, and synth-powered chaos to bridge the universes of past, present, and future. To launch his vision of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDesiderata \u003c\/i\u003einto the corporeal world, Shemie commissioned the Molinari String Quartet, one of Canada's most celebrated contemporary ensembles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“It’s more composition than experimentation,” Shemie said of the album. “The band is incredible and it mixes more contemporary chamber string writing, with some improvisation and feedback. I want to write severe 'serious' contemporary music, but I can only go so far before I need to break out into song, so it’s partly pop, and also pretty radical at times.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTo capture that lightning-in-a-bottle radicalism, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDesiderata \u003c\/i\u003ewas recorded live on the floor of hotel2tango, the Montreal studio owned by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Recording the album’s ten tracks in two single-takes, the urgency and dynamism of these compositions can be heard as much felt. The listener can sense the stuttering pulse of Shemie, flanked by five amplifiers and wading in electronic bedlam, as the Molinari Quartet switchbacks measures of strings and chimes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlbum opener “The Departure” begins the journey with a swell of strings and wailing electronics as the album’s narrator prepares to be launched into deep space. 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For some artists, being caught in flux may result in songs that are either naive, out of touch or both, simply as a consequence of being cut off from human civilization. But for SUUNS, a band who have grown more than comfortable in the oblique and the intermediate, it actually had the opposite effect. The Breaks marks the Montreal experimental rock outfit’s most emotionally resonant and tonally rich collection of music to date.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe trio of Ben Shemie, Joseph Yarmush and Liam O’Neill leans more zealously than ever into their pop instincts. Yet remarkably enough, with that same dauntless abandon, SUUNS have mined a more extreme sonic palette this time around, one that stretches far beyond their core fundamentals as a band. “Before we had a kind of rule that we wouldn't have any instruments on the record that we weren't actually playing,” drummer\/percussionist O'Neill says. “The recordings we made were always more of a document. There were no overdubs. And now…we don't care about that! Now we do whatever just sounds good.”  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The Breaks became sort of the opposite of our last record. Nothing was really played together. We were caught in a little bit of a wormhole, trying new things, throwing different things against the wall,” multi-instrumentalist Yarmush adds. Bands less experienced might have been forever trapped in said wormhole, but SUUNS’ mutual chemistry and trust turned out to be a reliable tether to explore these novel sonic ecosystems.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Breaks finds Shemie, O’Neill and Yarmush gleefully experimenting with loops, synths, samples and MIDI instruments like a post-millennial Tangerine Dream messing with downtempo triphop beats. The album doesn’t capture a band looking to move in one specific direction: SUUNS simply aim to advance. The band took inspiration from the freedom of long, aimless drives where fully-formed thoughts manifest out of stillness, slowly surrendering to a quixotic wanderlust. On some moments, SUUNS sound like a tight-knit band 16 years into their restless creative journey. On other moments, the whole idea of being a band scatters asunder like a swarm of moths.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Would you hold me baby\/and free up my mind?” we catch Shemie singing mid-comedown on “Vanishing Point”. A flirtatious sax flourish lifts us skyward into a space-pop nirvana, dissolving into a lotus-eating swell of arpeggiated synths. “Fish On A String” revisits the serpentine grooves of The Witness, if only briefly. The song was actually written by Shemie during the band’s formative years – the epoch when their single “2020” became a hot pick for Hollywood blockbuster movie trailers. In those days, SUUNS would almost certainly have broken “Fish On A String” into taut walls of distortion and feedback.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut SUUNS in the year 2024 have become a more malleable, self-navigating operation. “I’m stuck in this glass bowl\/but I believe that I’m free\/Free to dream in colors\/ colors I’ll never see,” Shemie sings, the acidic disenchantment in his voice gradually congealing into the hardened swagger of a Sergio Leone-protagonist. Like a beacon, an aura of synths casts a light on the song’s supple pulse, signaling a way out from SUUNS’ long-held sway with disarray and disillusionment. “Of all the SUUNS songs we’ve ever recorded, “Fish On A String” is by far the most confrontational and direct,” Shemie comments. “I feel I wouldn’t have been able to record this song in years past, because I wouldn’t have had the confidence to bring that kind of delivery.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLikewise, The Breaks summons back some of the daredevil experimentations of 2018’s Felt, the band’s final album released under Secretly Canadian. During those days, the band still shared a rehearsal space together, which allowed them to quickly capture ideas in their rudimentary phase without being too precious about revisiting them. Now SUUNS’ dynamic is of course drastically different: founding member Max Henry left the band prior to The Witness, and Shemie has since moved to Paris, making SUUNS a more long-distance musical affair.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy fate and circumstance, O’ Neill took point in the producer’s chair for The Breaks, arranging, structuring and editing many of Shemie and Yarmush’s ideas from sporadic rehearsal sessions into Pro Tools, reimagining the songs over and over during a two-year time frame. “We were making this album at a time I just didn't really have a lot going on in my life other than music,” O’Neill says. “Sometimes we arrived at these moments of impasse and where we didn't know what to do. And I just found myself really getting into it. Let’s try this and this! And just try everything. I had a lot of energy, and I felt really passionate about it.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of O’Neill’s ‘babies’ is the sublime, piano-driven “Road Signs and Meanings”, which sounds like a deconstructed Bowie\/Visconti-esque art pop opus. Shemie’s processed vocals hover above the arrangements like a spectral entity, drunk and dazed with pure euphoria. The hypnagogic “Rage”, despite its venereal synth-arpeggios and pitched-up vocals, is a deceptively simple pop song warped into something surreal.”Unlike our material in the past, the songs on The Breaks – and “Rage” in particular” – are pretty conventional. 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