Last month, Montreal’s SUUNS announced their sixth studio album The Breaks. and have since shared two singles from the album that have received support from esteemed publications, including Brooklyn Vegan, Clash, Exclaim!, GoldFlakePaint, The Line of Best Fit, Our Culture, Pitchfork, and many others. Today, SUUNS return to share a third and final album preview: the caustic and baroque “Overture,” which unfolds almost like a corrupted classical anthem in one of the most spectacular moments on The Breaks. “We bummed a ride on dead end streets/And lost our way on the road to Mecca,” SUUNS-guitarist/vocalist Ben Shemie seethes, as the music smoulders into sinister overdrive. The song is a high-wired mutation of sonic extremes–from The Fall to Travis Barker–disparate influences from all three band members magically coalescing.
SUUNS guitarist Joseph Yarmush recalls advocating for the song: “It’s so bonkers, like a little two-and-a-half-minute bomb. I think the vocals for me are what actually draws me the most to that song. I never heard that type of singing from Ben before. It just hit me in a way that I was like, ‘we have to put this on the record’.” Stream the song below and watch the self-directed lyric video, which picks up where the previous single “Doreen” left off.
