2023-12-06 20:18:00
The band, an eternal insider tip from Chemnitz, has presented another late work after a long dry spell. “Nothing Is The News” is very forgiving – and so good it hurts!
Indie.
Bands in the decay pool are usually a case for pity. “Pity” is to be taken literally. Because it often hurts when your career comes to an end. An existence as a family escape troop who, out of habit, respond every week to the defiant “Do you remember?” and “But next time!” in the hobby room and watches their potential wither away. And over the decades there have been some regional groups that had the fuel for a larger flame, but in the end they didn’t have the right kindling. One can accept this as the natural course of late adolescence between job and family. Or, in the confusing proliferation of musical influences and preferences, they fray into a complete lack of understanding of the rest of the world.
However, the Chemnitz band Suralin, not entirely unsuspicious of what has just been said, has just achieved a powerful feat as a third possibility: On the fifth album “Nothing Is The News”, the quartet bundles forces, creativity and many years of underground indie experience into a key work of the Band history that ties together threads that were previously often left loose. Many bands hope that the listener will find the right ending. But that’s only true in theory – people first want to be convinced by the artist before they give themselves over to him with their imagination.
The simple fine tinder that Suralin almost secretly packed into this plate flares up all the more violently. The group, which released its second album “A General Dogsbody” on the cult label Cargo in 2011 and was then on Atomino Records for “No Star” (2015) and “Simple Present” (2017), retains its stubborn mosaic of noise rock, Indie, shoegaze and postcore, but this time they have the courage to put clearer grid points in the songs.
Sound, hooks and, above all, the skillful guitar harmonies become the building blocks of something whole and are convincing across the board. What brings out the free radicals in the sound better, which Suralin doses more skilfully than ever before: Everything sits nicely where it needs to. And then the delicately striking in-between song: With each run, the artfully angled image becomes sharper like stars in a telescope, and you increasingly prefer to win each individual piece. It scratches and sparkles and shines and rubs loosely in the soul. In other words: Songs like “Awake”, “Beyond Me” or “Get Used To It” are great indie art between all subgenres, which bring the old scene extremely charmingly into today. So much potential is revealed – the thought that the band could stay where it is right now hurts the most!
In concert Among other things, Suralin will play on December 16th at the Riot youth center in Lichtenstein. On January 26th, 2024 the band will be in Ostpol Dresden and on February 17th in Borwaerk Netzschkau.
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