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.
This is an album that bears repeat play after repeat play, revealing greater detail each and every time.
It's a thrill to hear a rock band skewing genre archetypes in this way, and while Images du Futur does contain familiar elements, it's never short of compelling.
They've always preferred to make the listener work for their reward, but the journey towards that eventual destination sounds much more exciting and immediate.
Images Du Futur has a long temporal distance to travel before we can make such conclusions about its representative value of the decade or of the generation, but it’s a sound which could be a subtly defining one.
On an album that rarely shakes off its shroud of unease, Suuns paint a pretty bleak picture of all our tomorrows, but their own dazzling ‘…Futur’ looks assured.
Somehow managing to sound minimal and controlled even when claustrophobically arranged with ever-shifting sounds, Images du Futur improves on Suuns debut and goes even deeper into the dark sounds they've been developing and perfecting as they go.
Those who’ve followed Suuns will hear elements of its old ways; still, from its disjointed cover art to its woozy vibrations, it’s apparent that Suuns want to explore greater sonic space.
They know their way around the canon of post-punk and hybrid-electronic bands so well that every minute reveals another shade of grey you never even knew existed.
The guitars never quite get to riff stage, serving up texture, tension, and drone. They lend context to throbbing basslines, simple drumbeats, and marble-mouthed vocal meanderings.
Ultimately, this is what brings down Suuns: the quest for release means listeners aren't paying attention to what's happening in the now. Maybe that's the point, but Images Du Futur feels like a great movie without an ending.
Nearly every song on Images Du Futur feels like a bin of used CDs or an mp3 folder rather than a living thing, something to peruse rather than engage.
2020 y Minor Work es lo mejor de aquí, junto con la pista introductoria y Sunspot. Lo demás se escucha demasiado material y aburrido, rompiendo también con el curioso uso de las melodias junto con la voz para dar un ambiente oscuro, convirtiendolo en un montón de instrumentos tocando en una tormenta de nieve demasiado ruidosa.
1 | Powers of Ten 2:52 | 81 |
2 | 2020 4:13 | 93 |
3 | Minor Work 5:54 | 82 |
4 | Mirror Mirror 3:56 | 78 |
5 | Edie's Dream 4:21 | 89 |
6 | Sunspot 4:36 | 83 |
7 | Bambi 4:57 | 81 |
8 | Holocene City 4:54 | 79 |
9 | Images du futur 3:34 | 80 |
10 | Music Won't Save You 5:56 | 90 |