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The Witness (album)

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Suuns' "most cohesive album yet, the first that never gets lost in its own dark gravity", and that the album "unlocks a parallel universe for the band, and though Suuns are still sculpting monoliths to paranoia, to hear them chipping away with such steady hands is a welcome treat."
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has the power to guide you in a sensory journey where abstract, psychedelic, futuristic or exoticism are mixed", but that "the only small thorn lies in the melodies and vocals, sometimes too shy or idealistic to sublimate the whole."
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s Zara Hedderman called the album "immediately immersive" and "an excellent and engrossing record" on which the band includes "more patience and consideration applied to their performances."
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Fred Thomas called the album "a consumptive listening experience, designed with precision and purpose in the same way as the immersive albums that came before it by
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helps "to uncover crevices of Suuns' noise potential", but that "Some of the lacking aspects of their previous record have carried over, albeit minutely" and "While
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album, one that ends up as an interesting listen but with little to pull us back to it."
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s Tim Sentz wrote "Continuing down the path they set out on with 2016's
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The Witness (Suuns album)
Witness (disambiguation) § Albums
A plain orange background with the album name printed in small black text in the top-right, and the band name in the bottom-middle. Mostly in the bottom-left is a pink-and-black photograph of a shirtless man lying down in a bed.
Studio album
Suuns
Breakglass
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal
Mile End, Montreal
Genre
Post-punk
post-rock
Krautrock
Label
Joyful Noise
Secret City
Producer
John Congleton
Suuns
Fiction EP
Suuns
Joyful Noise Recordings
Secret City Records
Breakglass Studios
Metacritic
AllMusic
Beats Per Minute
The Line of Best Fit
Loud and Quiet
Pitchfork
Uncut

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