Today, Montreal’s SUUNS unveiled their long-anticipated sixth album, The Breaks, released through Secret City Records in Canada and Joyful Noise Recordings internationally.
This album showcases the band’s signature sound but ventures into even more spacious, moody territory, blending dream-like atmospheres with their electro-psych-rock foundation.
The Breaks feels like a slow-burner, a journey through immersive soundscapes that build tension and release in subtle ways.
The band’s focus on space and texture gives the album an introspective quality, creating a hypnotic listening experience.
It’s clear that SUUNS have refined their sound here, delivering a strong, cohesive effort that stands out in their catalog.
About the album by SUUNS:
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 Breaksbecame 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.
The Breaks gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
SUUNS – The Breaks [Streaming]
