User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
- Summary: The third full-length release for the Canadian quartet was produced by John Congleton and recorded in three weeks.
Buy Now
| Buy on |
|
- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, New Wave/Post-Punk Revival
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 10 out of 15
-
Mixed: 5 out of 15
-
Negative: 0 out of 15
-
Apr 13, 2016Experimental, textured, destructive, booming, progressive and at times disturbing, Hold/Still finds the tense, perfect middle between darkness and light, cold but burning hot with desire.
-
UncutApr 27, 2016Suuns have never been slouches in the mutant kosmische department, but the John Congleton-produced Hold/Still blasts them into a new dimension. [Jun 2016, p.81]
-
Jun 6, 2016Taken in one extended listening session, Hold/Still proves titularly prophetic because you’re left exhausted from all the foregoing textural and tempo twists. One could liken the experience to ingesting a handful of lysergic tablets and then deciding to run a marathon that lasts all night. Once you’re done, you’re done for good. Hold still, kids.
-
Apr 13, 2016Even if some of the songs have spare, measured rhythms that seem easy enough to follow, the group will make the guitar notes spiral into strange directions or build the feedback up to hair-raising levels.
-
Apr 14, 2016It’s a consistent, methodical unsteadiness that hangs a song on a single blurred synth tone, a suspension bridge between two guitars acres apart in the mix, and then shoots it with bolts of electricity.
-
Apr 21, 2016Despite its few too many twisted Thom Yorkisms, Hold/Still is a convincing attempt at making the impossibly bleak impossibly toe-tapping.
-
Q MagazineApr 13, 2016Too many of the remaining songs sound more like sketches than fully realised songs. [May 2016, p.116]
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 0 out of
-
Mixed: 0 out of
-
Negative: 0 out of