March 08, 2018

SUiT: The Girl, The God, The Rush

Dutch-German rock quartet SUiT are a technically proficient outfit who need to move away from the things they learned as rock academies students. Their debut full-length The Girl, The God, The Rush is like a course in guitar-oriented music - mainly blues, rock and pop. No doubt their teachers are impressed with what they have accomplished so far, but now it's time to find their own sound. Make it a little grittier for starters and not as much sheen on the vocals. They know how to do that in concert. The live version of the title track is on point, a passionate warts-and-all rendition that should have replaced the tepid studio version.

There is some good stuff on the album - Water My Friend, Robot Sweat and 1Q84, but that's not enough graduate to the bigger stages. Homework for what they hope to achieve: go to a record store and stock up on albums by De Staat, Queens of the Stone Age, and Navarone. Class dismissed.

SUiT:
Lex Brown: vocals, guitar
Rutger Martens: guitar, vocals
Ivo Schot: bass, vocals
Stefan Wandel: drums

The Girl, The God, The Rush is a self-released album. Buy it from their website.

Tracks:
  1. The Girl, the God, the Rush
  2. Robot Sweat
  3. Shifting Dunes
  4. Quicksand Waterfalls
  5. Kings and Queens
  6. When She Speaks
  7. Water My Friend
  8. Over the Next Hill
  9. Blessed with Black
  10. 1Q84
  11. 22:22

Live dates:
  • 03/08 Sage Club, Berlin, Germany
  • 03/11 De Gigant, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
  • 03/12 Waterhole, Amsterdam, Ne/
  • 03/15 W2, Den Bosch, Netherlands
  • 03/16 Cafe de Kroeg, Arnhem, Netherlands
  • 03/17 Sofar Sounds (Afternoon show), Leiden, Netherlands/
  • 03/17 Carbon, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 03/18 Sofar Sounds (Afternoon show), Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • 03/19 De Muziekgieterij, Maastricht, Netherlands
  • 03/21 Pitcher and Piano, Brighton, UK
  • 03/22 Dublin's Caslte, London, UK
  • 03/24 Living room Concert, Brighton, UK

» suitmusic.com

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