Suuns

In 2009, Suuns entered Breakglass Studios with Jace Lasek of the Besnard Lakes co-producing and engineering, and recorded their first album, Zeroes QC. Upon its release in 2010, a reviewer of The New York Times said that it offered a "rigorous strategy behind every gorgeous onslaught."{{Cite news |last=Jon Pareles |title=The Reliable (Melodic) Drone of Suuns |url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/22/the-reliable-melodic-drone-of-suuns/ |access-date=October 10, 2010 |work=The New York Times}} The album appeared on the !Earshot National Top 50 Chart.[http://www.earshot-online.com/charts/index.cfm?intChartTypeID=101&dWeekOfID=2010-10-26 "The National Top 50 For the Week Ending: Tuesday, October 26, 2010"]. !Earshot. Suuns toured the East Coast in the summer with Parlovr and further established their fan base during their fall tour with Land of Talk and The Besnard Lakes.{{Cite web |last=S |first=Iain |title=The Besnard Lakes to Tour this Fall with Band of Horses, Jenny and Johnny, and others |url=https://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/the_besnard_lakes_to_tour_this_fall_with_band_of_horses_land_of_talk_brad_a |access-date=2021-11-19 |website=www.undertheradarmag.com |language=en}}

Suuns spent much of 2011 performing in the U.S., Europe and Canada including New York's CMJ, SXSW, Primavera Sound, and over twelve other festivals. They also headlined a Canadian tour and co-headlined a North American tour with PS I Love You.{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=BrooklynVegan |date=October 7, 2011 |title=Suuns & PS I Love You are here (Diamond Rings too), both with new releases (MP3s & dates) |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/suuns-ps-i-love/ |access-date=2021-11-19 |website=BrooklynVegan |language=en}} During a rare couple weeks off in Montreal, Suuns decided to take a risk to experiment and create two new, unusual songs. "Red Song" and "Bambi" were extended pieces unlike Suuns' previous works.{{Cite web |date=2011-10-07 |title=New Music: Suun's "Bambi" & "Red Song" |url=https://www.stereophile.com/content/new-music-suun%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cbambi%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%9Cred-song%E2%80%9D |access-date=2021-11-19 |website=Stereophile.com |language=en}}

In 2012, they were the curators for the Sonic City Festival in Belgium.{{Cite web |last=Judge |first=Stephen |date=2012-07-02 |title=Suuns to Curate 2012 Sonic City Fest |url=https://blurtonline.com/2012/07/suuns-to-curate-2012-sonic-city-fest/ |access-date=2021-11-19 |website=Blurt Magazine |language=en-US}} Other festival performances included the National's ATP Festival, London's Village Underground, and Paris's Point Ephemere. The band also spent much of the year preparing to release their second album, Images Du Futur, which they announced in November, and gearing up for the busy year ahead.{{Cite web |last=Studarus |first=Laura |title=Suuns Announce New Album Images Du Futur |url=https://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/suuns_announce_new_album_iimages_du_futur_i |access-date=2021-11-19 |website=www.undertheradarmag.com |language=en}} They finished off 2012 with a month-long tour from mid-November through mid-December.

The band kicked off the year with a January release of new music video "Edie's Dream" and a February release of the video for "2020". Their second album, Images Du Futur, was released by Secretly Canadian on March 5 (except in Canada on Secret City Records) in the middle of Suuns' international three-month tour featuring We Are Wolves and Plants and Animals. The Line of Best Fit describes the album: "Images Du Futur is exciting in a way that few albums manage to be, dangerous and compelling like a first cigarette or fumbled sexual encounter, and nothing here quite seems real: these ten tracks exist in a half-light, a nocturnal fog a step removed from lucid thought. And a long, long way from anything routine."{{Cite web |date=March 9, 2013 |title=Suuns - Images Du Futur | The Line Of Best Fit |url=http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/sunns-images-du-futur-119717 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309051924/http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/sunns-images-du-futur-119717 |archive-date=March 9, 2013 |access-date=November 22, 2020}} In June 2013, the album was longlisted for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize.

Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart released their self-titled album worldwide on April 14, 2015, and announced tour and festival dates.{{Cite web |title=Suuns / Jerusalem in My Heart: Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20348-suuns-and-jerusalem-in-my-heart/ |access-date=2021-11-19 |website=Pitchfork |language=en}} An Exclaim! interview states, "Recorded over a week in November 2012, the tracks mixed the strengths of both bands: the Eastern modes and drones plus the Arabic vocal delivered by Moumneh, and the keyboard arpeggios and incisive guitars of Suuns' Shemie and Joe Yarmush."{{Cite web |last=Hill |first=Eric |title=Suuns Talk Their Meeting of Minds with Jerusalem in My Heart |url=http://exclaim.ca/Music/article/8203suuns_talk_collaborative_album_with_jerusalem_in_my_heart |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150605203132/http://exclaim.ca/Music/article/8203suuns_talk_collaborative_album_with_jerusalem_in_my_heart |archive-date=June 5, 2015 |access-date=June 5, 2015 |website=Exclaim.ca}}

In May 2015 the band began recording Hold/Still in Dallas, Texas with producer John Congleton. During the three-week recording session, Congleton encouraged the band to capture flawless live takes of each track, without use of overdubs. The album includes songs that the band had been working on for several years but never showed up on previous albums, including "Translate" and "Infinity". It was released on April 15, 2016, via Secretly Canadian.{{Cite web |date=2016-04-14 |title=Review: Suuns Get Twitchy, Can't 'Hold/Still' |url=https://www.spin.com/2016/04/review-suuns-hold-still/ |access-date=2021-11-19 |website=SPIN |language=en-US}}

In November 2016, the band also curated their own program during the tenth Anniversary Edition of Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht, The Netherlands.{{Cite web |date=2016-05-25 |title=Wilco, Savages, Julia Holter, Suuns Curate 2016 Le Guess Who? Festival |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/65699-wilco-savages-julia-holter-suuns-curate-2016-le-guess-who-festival/ |access-date=2021-11-19 |website=Pitchfork |language=en-US}} This curated program included performances by amongst others Pauline Oliveros, Alessandro Cortini, Patrick Higgins and Jerusalem in My Heart.

On October 30, 2020, the band released their EP, Fiction, via Secret City and Joyful Noise Recordings.{{Cite news |last=Vitagliano, Joe |date=October 30, 2020 |title=Suuns Explores New Territory And New Vibes On New EP, "FICTION" |url=https://americansongwriter.com/suuns-explores-new-territory-and-new-vibes-on-new-ep-fiction/ |access-date=December 27, 2020 |work=American Songwriter}}

On September 3, 2021, the band released The Witness through Joyful Noise Recordings internationally{{Cite web |title=SUUNS {{!}} The Witness {{!}} Joyful Noise Recordings |url=https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/products/the-witness |access-date=June 25, 2021 |website=Joyful Noise Recordings}} and on Secret City Records in Canada. It is the follow-up full-length to 2018's Felt. On June 9, 2021, The Fader premiered the first single and video for "Witness Protection".{{Cite web |title=SUUNS give isolation a haunting soundtrack with "Witness Protection" |url=https://www.thefader.com/2021/06/09/suuns-witness-protection-music-video |access-date=June 25, 2021 |website=The FADER |language=en}} Pitchfork hailed it as a breakthrough album for the group.{{Cite web |title=Suuns: The Witness |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/suuns-the-witness/ |access-date=2021-11-19 |website=Pitchfork |language=en}}

O'Neill appears on Charlotte Cornfield's album Highs in the Minuses and on Cedric Noel's LP Hangtime.{{Cite web |last=Pappis |first=Konstantinos |date=August 5, 2021 |title=Charlotte Cornfield Announces New Album, Shares Video for New Song 'Headlines' |url=https://ourculturemag.com/2021/08/05/charlotte-cornfield-announces-new-album-shares-new-song-headlines/ |access-date=August 7, 2021 |website=Our Culture Mag}}{{Cite web |title=Cedric Noel Confidently Asks the Tough Questions on 'Hang Time' {{!}} Exclaim! |url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/cedric_noel_hang_time_album_review |access-date=2021-11-19 |website=exclaim.ca |language=en-ca}}

Episode five of the Amazon Prime Video show Outer Range and the trailer for Three Thousand Years of Longing feature the Suuns song "2020". As does episode 10, series 1 of Halt and Catch Fire

Studio albums

• Zeroes QC (2010), Secretly Canadian
• Images Du Futur (2013), Secretly Canadian
• Hold/Still (2016), Secretly Canadian
• Felt (2018), Secretly Canadian
• The Witness (2021), Joyful Noise Recordings and Secret City
• The Breaks (2024), Joyful Noise Recordings and Secret City

EP

• Fiction (2020), Joyful Noise Recordings and Secret City

Singles

• "Bambi" b/w "Red Song" (2011), Secretly Canadian

Collaborative albums

• Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart (2015, with Jerusalem in My Heart)

{{Reflist}}

• [http://www.suuns.net/ Official website]
• {{Cite web |title=Suuns |url=http://www.secretlycanadian.com/artist.php?name=suuns |access-date=March 13, 2020 |website=Secretlycanadian.com}}
• {{Cite web |last=Phillips |first=Amy |title=Suuns - Albums, Songs, and News |url=http://pitchfork.com/artists/29065-suuns/ |access-date=March 13, 2020 |website=Pitchfork.com}}
• [https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/collections/suuns Label - Joyful Noise Recordings]

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