Suuns – Images Du Futur

Suuns – Images du Futur (Secretly Canadian)

The cover of Suuns’s sophomore album, Images du Futur, depicts an androgynous woman with a neutral facial expression, the contours of her face so soft around the edges she almost looks like a painting. The image is actually made of several copies of the same photograph, torn and layered atop one another in progressively larger pieces. At the bottom of these layers there’s presumably the image of the woman, and behind that image there’s the woman herself, but even if you could get to the bottom of it she’d remain a mystery. Perhaps the point of these images of the future is that it remains uncertain and the band anticipates it with neither anxiety nor hope. If the soundtrack to getting there consists of this kind of patient, groovy, and evocative (albeit emotionally inert) prog rock, I’d be pretty content.

by Carly Blair

Don’t forget to check out our exclusive Subbacultcha! HQ Session with Suuns, shot by Eline Prins and Jilles van Kleef at La Vera Storia’s Dijktheater in Amsterdam. Suuns are at Melkweg with Valleys on 12 May.