The Breaks (Transparent Red Vinyl) [Vinyl]

《The Breaks》是從小白兔在台灣發行首張專輯《Zeroes QC》到現在的第六張作品，十年前也在台灣過專場的我們幾乎經歷了這個樂團進行軌跡，他們逐漸卸除了「噪」的部分，保留了他們標誌的美妙迂迴，新專輯他們解放了以往的創作「只使用實際演奏會出現的樂器」原則，擴大了錄音作品能觸及到的色彩，毫無設限的循環、合成器、sample 及 MIDI 的使用，也飄出了許多 downtempo、triphop 的邏輯，更偏執的灰色迴路，持續運轉的能量，喘口氣的時候帶上的是類似低迷經典曲目〈Edie s Dream〉式的絮語。

On their sixth long player The Breaks – their second for Joyful Noise Recordings – SUUNS find themselves lost in limbo. For some artists, being caught in flux may result in songs that are either naive, out of touch or both, simply as a consequence of being cut off from human civilization. But for SUUNS, a band who have grown more than comfortable in the oblique and the intermediate, it actually had the opposite effect. The Breaks marks the Montreal experimental rock outfits most emotionally resonant and tonally rich collection of music to date.

The trio of Ben Shemie, Joseph Yarmush and Liam ONeill leans more zealously than ever into their pop instincts. Yet remarkably enough, with that same dauntless abandon, SUUNS have mined a more extreme sonic palette this time around, one that stretches far beyond their core fundamentals as a band. “Before we had a kind of rule that we wouldnt have any instruments on the record that we werent actually playing,” drummer/percussionist ONeill says. “The recordings we made were always more of a document. There were no overdubs. And now…we dont care about that! Now we do whatever just sounds good.”