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<\/iframe>File Next to: <b>Cocteau Twins<\/b>, <b>Clan of Xymox<\/b>, <b>Depeche Mode<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Though there’s a dark and doomy undercurrent to the songs on <i>Hold\/Still<\/i>, the group adheres to the basic tenets of melody. <b>Suuns<\/b> (pronounced \u201csoons\u201d) are clearly aiming for a krautrock-ish vibe on the eleven tracks, and that hypnotic aesthetic comes through loud and clear. But amid the left-field electronic squawks and jagged, droning guitar textures, there are hooks to be found within the music. The guitars on \u201cUN-NO\u201d sound like air raid sirens, and singer\/guitarist <b>Ben Shemie<\/b>‘s half-spoken vocal style is alluring in its own way. The tension builds from the start of the unrelentingly stomping \u201cResistance,\u201d and it’s both a surprise and a relief when \u2013 two minutes in \u2013 the piece reveals itself as an actual song. Producer <b>John Congleton<\/b> (<b>Swans<\/b>, <b>St. Vincent<\/b>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/13\/the-black-angels-a-big-scoop-of-psychedelic-ice-cream\/\"><b>The Black Angels<\/b><\/a>) helps give the group a focused sonic approach that is both eerie and inviting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File Next to: Cocteau Twins, Clan of Xymox, Depeche Mode Though there’s a dark and doomy undercurrent to the songs on Hold\/Still, the group adheres to the basic tenets of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[2691],"class_list":["post-10756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-suuns","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10758,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756\/revisions\/10758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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