★★★★★
Fresh on the heels of their eponymous collaborative LP, Suuns and Jerusalem In My Heart played an excellent show at FIMAV, assisted by a video created by Le Révélateur's Sabrina Ratté. Like the album on which their set was based, the music was not entirely congruent with either of artists' solo work, but created a new sound that drew equally from their roots...
- exclaim.ca
2015-05-16
★★★★★
The hooks are there, but they're layers deep, below noise and distorted beds of rhythm. The guitars in Suuns are just texture machines that sound ugly and boiling hot, but push the whole thing over. There's constant pulsing, between drum machines and synthetic stabs of WTF. Drones mix with nutso dance beats, and it crushes. Vocalist/guitarist Ben Shemie is an arresting figure who connects with a microphone with intimate intensity...
- exclaim.ca
2015-04-25
★★★★★
Suuns & Jerusalem in My Heart
Suuns & Jerusalem in My Heart
Published Apr 15, 2015
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Suuns are a four-piece that combine the prickly art of post-punk with a proto-electro keyboard swirl, giving them a vibe that shoots in two (or more) historical directions; Jerusalem in My Heart is even harder to define...
- exclaim.ca
2015-04-16
★★★★★
Suuns' last release, Images Du Futur, was, for me at least, a classic example of an album that slowly invades the brain's pleasure centres rather than immediately overwhelming the heart. The first couple of listens were oddly alienating, the band's rarefied take on alt psych proving difficult to get a handle on beyond their sometimes uncanny resemblance to Clinic...
- thequietus.com
2015-04-15
★★★★★
Canadian indie electronic quartet Suuns first teamed up with friend Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, who had done like-minded electronic sound art under the name Jerusalem in My Heart, in late 2012. The longtime friends and collaborators got together with no definitive plan, hoping to maximize time together in a rented studio and come away with a wealth of new music...
- www.allmusic.com
2015-04-19
★★★★★
Although both hail from Montreal, a collaboration between Suuns and Jerusalem In My Heart isn't one that many would have predicted at the start of the year. Since emerging in 2010, Suuns have impressed with their taut, channelled synth-bolstered rock, culminating in second album Images du Futur being nominated for the 2013 Polaris Prize...
- www.musicomh.com
2015-04-14
★★★★★
Judging from their respective recorded output to date, Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart don't seem to share anything beyond Montreal postal codes. The former is an archetypal indie rock band--four white guys in standard guitar/bass/synth/drums formation, belonging to a distinctly Western tradition of dystopian art-punk...
- pitchfork.com
2015-04-10
★★★★★
While there's a lot of space in ' music, they've never struck me as the sort of band that would particularly want to share it. And so while 's stuttering, swirling experimentalism can be pegged as an obvious peer to Suuns' minimalist approach to tension creation, it's still a bit surprising that to see these artists making a collaborative album. The main reason that it's happened is that they're just really good mates...
- www.drownedinsound.com
2015-04-09
★★★★★
Montreal's Suuns made a strong first impression with their 2010 debut, Zeroes QC, combining ominous, pulsing synths with dissonant post-punk guitars and unexpected bursts of pop harmonies. Rather than mess with a good thing, they've simply refined that bag of tricks on the sequel, once again working with producer Jace Lasek. Recorded with the Montreal student protests filling the streets around them every day, Images Du Futur is more dissonant than its predecessor...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-04-02
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