My Review: SUIR - NOT ALL OF YOUR PAIN IS SELF CHOSEN

 SUIR - NOT ALL OF YOUR PAIN IS SELF CHOSEN

Cologne is the musical mountain of Germany: towering peaks, the biting cold in the notes, the right and perfect chill on the skin comes when you get a chance to take a free descent there.

Lucia Seiß & Denis Wanic are simply beautiful: a determined, capable, clear-headed duo, architects and workers of songs that clench the heart and throw it into delirium from the taut-faced, somber, pure, divine, flawless spectacle.

Released in October 2022, this work is much more than it seems: it is a machine, a glimpse, kilos of literature, continuous nuance, a black-and-white film, a stimulus to make up one's thoughts, a set of tales, a surfboard on the sound stones of the German city...

How can one describe the place where truculent feelings, sense of loss, disillusionment, frustration meet? It's natural for them: they sling their instruments and everything comes out, clear in their inner haze, a miracle that can only be cuddled with careful listening.

Sure: there are musical genres, even precise ones, and methodical forays into taking from the past what can be scaled down, but would it be necessary to specify the mode? Leave me with the conviction that something else needs to be done here: to disperse into listening, possibly in the basement, and to feel the house come crashing down on your head, feeling an absurd joy...

I can imagine, though, the insistence: Darkwave, Coldwave, Post-Punk, Post-Rock in the album take precedence, they are the ostensible forms of expression, how to deny it?

Let's avoid prolongations that might be tedious and rather throw in the notes of Not Accustomed To Be Hurt and you will have a clear idea of what you will find in this their third record: you will have no escape, all that is a painful mantra and sweetness compacted, knowing how to imprison impulses in pleasurable torture. And then the bands you love, many of them, might applaud the band and your purchase, because you cannot miss the appointment with this record, which is representative of suggestions glued to the need to be thrown into you, as this is perfection, just know it..

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

8th February 2023

https://suir.bandcamp.com/album/not-all-of-your-pain-is-self-chosen