Cosmic Americana? I’ve heard the designation applied before with reference to Other Brother Darryl, though the two bands are quite different. OBD has some spacey, psych-informed sounds, but they’re still writing songs that are at bottom conventional pop ditties with lyrics surfing atop verses and refrains. Kind of Crosby, Stills & Nash. SUSS, if their full-length Birds & Beasts is any indication, have moved beyond traditional pop structures for fully-instrumental soundscapes. Experimental, in some sense. I guess anytime a music outfit packages instrumentals for popular music consumption, there’s an experiment underway. An experiment that’s still grounded in the strings and keys of the folk tradition. Shades of Aaron Copland. Via Northern Spy Records.

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