@suss_band receives a shining 8 out of 10 review in @uncut_magazine in anticipation of their upcoming release, Birds & Beasts, out this Friday, June 28 on Northern Spy Records.
“Either way, Birds & Beasts is nothing if not vivid - a summoning of the mythical American landscapes that kept pilgrims heading west.”
Read the review + Q&A now ahead of Birds & Beasts’ release on Friday. CDs & LPs featuring design from @dnorsen_design are available for preorder now.
Pat Irwin talks about his National Steel guitar
The first track that SUSS ever recorded was Wichita and it starts out with this National Steel guitar. It has a uniquely American sound that’s just right for SUSS and it’s on every record we’ve made, including the new one, “Birds & Beasts.”
I came to the National Steel by way of Son House whose Death Letter Blues and John The Revelator shook me to the core. This music still moves me.
My wife and I just took a road trip through the South to find the places where this music began. We started in Tennessee and then drove across the Mississippi River into Arkansas. We then
made our way back into Mississippi and Alabama, down to the Gulf of Mexico, over to New Orleans and up Highway 61, back to Memphis.
The “Welcome To Mississippi” sign greeted us with the words, “The Birthplace of American Music.” This is what I was looking for. I wanted to feel this place and see it today. This is where the music that made me began.
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@suss_band has a new single out today. “Overstory”, the third single from their upcoming release Birds & Beasts, is available on streaming now.
“Overstory” seem to operate via the same logic as that which dictates the interactions of a road-weary mind and a cloud of migrating birds flying over the forest canopy 🦅
Preorder the LP via @northernspyrecs or Bandcamp ahead of its July 28 release.
Cult band The Necks will be back to Europe and UK in the fall.
The shows are on sale now!
05/11/2024 BE Antwerp De Singel
06/11/2024 DE Berlin Boulez Saal
08/11/2024 IT Firenze A Jazz Supreme
09/11/2024 IT Novara NovaraJazz Festival
10/11/2024 BE (TBA)
12/11/2024 CZ Prague Palác Akropolis
13/11/2024 NL Utrecht Tivoli
14/11/2024 NL Amsterdam Bimhuis
15/11/2024 UK Bristol Strange Brew
17/11/2024 PL Wroclaw Jazztopad / NFM
19/11/2024 ES Barcelona L’Auditori
20/11/2024 ES San Sebastian Teatro Victoria Eugenia
22/11/2024 RS Belgrade Dom Omladine
23/11/2024 HR Zagreb Lauba Art Gallery
24/11/2024 AT Kufstein Landesmusikschule Kufstein
26/11/2024 IT Vicenza Teatro Comunale
28/11/2024 FI Helsinki We Jazz Festival / G Livelab