When the main man Jsun Atoms says of their latest single, “Narco Polo,” that it “feels like a dada ice cream party inside a Salvador Dali painting”, not only is it a brilliant image, but it does seem to be a description which encapsulates Sun Atoms mercurial and inventive sonic world. It is easy to throw around genre tags such as psychedelic, shoegaze, alt-pop, and indie, but none quite tell the whole story…yet all of them sort of fit, too. But such is their ever-shifting sound and fluid music-making world that even the most eloquent descriptions can fully capture even one song, let alone a whole album.
Take the opener, “Take This Love,” an urgent dance groove pushing heavy vibes and sugar-coated in shimmering indie guitars and chiming electronica, and tell me where you would find that in the record store racks.
“Idiot Speaker” is a strange blend of Eastern sounds and claustrophobic sonic breaths, “Bus Stop Gospel” is a brass-soaked slice of perky pop, but delivered with the mercurial tones that only Sun Atoms brings to the party, and the aforementioned “Narco Polo,” which features Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock, heads into the rappy, indie-dance groove spaces that are still warm from the passing of bands such as Happy Mondays and “The Stone Roses.”
Sun Atoms has never been a band that is easy to describe on paper, which is as it should be; after all, if you can sum up any band easily and in few words, then they are probably not bringing much to the table. By contrast, with this band, to paraphrase Sheriff Brody as he traversed the waters of Cape Cod in search of his prey, “I think we are going to need a bigger table.”
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