Joe Imwalle
Since forming an ambient country band ( Aux Meadows ) I’ve been exploring the genre on Bandcamp and finding many fantastic like minded bands. SUSS is a major favorite! I keep coming back to this album. Excellent job, guys!!
While their first two albums, Ghost Box and High Line, explored panoramas that evoked the American West as well as the cosmic beyond, Promise--the third and latest album by SUSS on Northern Spy Records--takes a more personal journey that maps out the rocky terrain of the American dream. Writing, recording, and mixing during the pandemic quarantine, the members of SUSS used their music to come to grips with concepts such as “promise” and “hope” and what they could still mean in this day and age.
On Promise, the NYC quartet creates sonic landscapes using pedal steel, baritone guitar, ebow, harmonium, synths, loops and other Americana instrumentation. Drawing on influences from their younger years, SUSS has created music that evokes early psychedelic Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk and the seminal soundtrack work of John Barry. The result, which they call “pastoral psychedelicism,” is a music that is beautiful, haunting and challenging.
credits
released December 4, 2020
SUSS is Jonathan Gregg, Gary Leib, Bob Holmes, and Pat Irwin
Mixed by William Garrett, Paul Kolderie, Kramer & Patrick Derivaz
Mastered by Oscar Zambrano at Zampol Productions
Produced by Pat Irwin
All music composed and performed by SUSS
All tracks published by High Lonesome Music (BMI); Obliterati Music (ASCAP); PI Publishing (ASCAP); Ray Bilge (BMI) and * G4 Music (ASCAP)
This has become one of the most important albums of my life. It’s essence is indescribable. Every sound from the start of the record through the end is placed delicately and with care. The album cover is by Julie Mehretu. It’s absolutely an incredible release for which I shall be eternally grateful. Aniket
It's the perfect album. Songs that fill you with joy, songs that make you feel melancholic, slow haunting tunes, and songs that have you tapping your feet. Play it in the background as you work, put it on for a long drive, or sit and listen and enjoy the incredible and innovative techniques and try to guess how she even did it! koshpeli
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