There's an idea that something abrasive can be just as much affecting as something lovely. That music de-constructed and pulled apart can still be music. Suuns understand this. The band's newest EP, Fiction, out this Friday on Joyful Noise via Secretly Canadian, moves the band's focus further out, even as portions of this remain rather accessible.
The title cut is like proto-Kraftwerk, while "Pray" throbs and pulses with the energy and playfulness of electronica. Elsewhere, "Look", like "Death (featuring Amber Webber)", erupts into washes of noise that suggests a lifetime spent studying remixes of "Soon" by My Bloody Valentine. Suuns are no shoegaze act, of course, as their art is a more diffuse and prickly one. The perfection and precision of the majority of the cuts here on Fiction gives way to the sandpaper-rough, Cabaret Voltaire-recalling "Trouble Every Day" near the end of the EP. The cut blends the multiple priorities of this band very well.
Fiction is out on Friday via Joyful Noise via Secretly Canadian.
More details on Suuns via the band's official website, or their official Facebook page.