SIXTH STUDIO LP THE BREAKS DUE SEPTEMBER 6 ON SECRET CITY RECORDS
Following the announcement of their forthcoming album, respected Montreal band SUUNSreturns to share “Doreen,” the second single from The Breaks, due September 6 via Secret City Records. Accompanied by a self-directed music video of uncannily down-sampled driving footage, “Doreen” is another first for the band: a vulnerable love ballad that disperses into an increasingly menacing deluge of synths.
“Doreen/Come to me in my dreams/And then you leave me”, sings vocalist/guitarist Ben Shemie.
“The Doreen in question,” according to Shemie, “doesn’t per se symbolize a specific person, but the mysteries that inspire you to move forward, yet are never fully attained. It’s a futile quest, as thoughts, feelings, sounds, and images will eternally slip through your fingers, unbound from action or creation.” “
Doreen” is SUUNS’ affecting serenade to oblivion.
Earlier this month, SUUNS announced their sixth studio full-length album on the heels of wrapping up a US tour and in anticipation of their recently completed headline run across Québec. Following the album’s September release, SUUNS will embark on a tour that will take them to London, throughout Europe, and Mexico City. The full tour routing can be found below.
On The Breaks, SUUNS find themselves lost in limbo. The 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. The 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.
Forged between countless plane rides, road trips, van tours, and text threads, The Breaks became a product of endurance and a lot of trial and error. It’s a record composed in tight fissions of freedom, where spells of whispered intimacy – like on the stunning ballad “Doreen” – are allowed to branch out into the vast glacial dreamscapes of the album’s majestic title track. It captures SUUNS at their most panoramic, curious, and exuberant: a constant relay of being adrift and enlightened anew, geared up to eleven. And guess what: the wheels keep on spinning.
Pre-order The Breaks here.
| Tour Dates |
| July 20 – Field, ON @ River & Sky Festival |
| September 12 – London, UK @ Studio 9294 September 13 – Leffinge, Belgium @ Leffingeleuren Festival September 14 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Indiestad Festival at Paradiso September 15 – Lyon, France @ Epicerie Moderne September 16 – Marseille, France @ Espace Julien September 17 – Paris, France @ Trabendo September 19 – Liège, Belgium @ Reflektor September 20 – Rotterdam, Netherlands @ Lantaren Venster September 21 – Hamburg, Germany @ Reeperbahn Festival September 22 – Berlin, Germany @ Lido |
| November 2 – Mexico City, Mexico @ Hipnosis Music Festival 2024 |
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