Album Review: Suuns - Felt

Suuns' darker take on experimental psychedelic loosens up on their new album Felt to kick out something that feels like jam.

The lead single Watch You, Watch Me captures the band at their most frenetic but the chaos feels more like a mathematically orchestrated freakout than just random insanity. The loose spaciousness that typically exists in their mix is overcrowded with skittering rhythms and motorik beats. On Daydream, Suuns create strange mindbending moire patterns out of basic noise. Baseline cuts some slack with a looser groove and a lazy attitude. Arpeggiated blips that splatter across the mix feel like proto-trance from the '70s as if the indulgences of the '90s never happened. Hitting a downward spiral with After The Fall, Suuns work a grinding groove crafted out of noise in which mellow introspection is layered. Ben Shemie's soft aimless coo wanders over lyrics that deal with memory and loss, making for a hip take on melancholia.

Felt isn't a piece of material, it's more a reflection on emotions past. Wrestling with reality, Make It Real works delightfully soft, floppy vibes that slip through fingers, making it difficult to grasp onto something real. Loose slacker vibes featuring their usual industrial and shoegaze influences make for dreamy listening.