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)
I’m so grateful this crossed my path. This album is so beautiful. All the clear technique and mastery and vision are kinda secondary to the fact that this album brought me calm and joy during one of the most difficult times in my life. Yeah, grateful. David McCullough
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