Suckers - "A Mind I Knew"

It was a year ago that Brooklyn band the Suckers first made waves with their tribal pop-infused chaos via their excellent self-titled EP. Now the band is set to return on June 8th with their first full-length, Wild Smile. Appetites can now officially be whetted with the first excellent single from the album (sorry, "Black Sheep"). "A Mind I Knew" is what the band does best: take a simple melody and slowly build it up into a tornado of frenzied rhythm and polyphony. With cow brain-filled cover art and lines such as "your heart is like cripple demon," it's obvious this type of pop music comes from a strange place—and it's all the better for it. Pre-order Wild Smile here.

Suckers - "A Mind I Knew" (from Wild Smile)

Wafts of light from the Suckers

Howling background chants, large landscapes filled with the quiet pattering of a piano, soaring trumpet melodies, and a distant and large swelling guitar. On "It Gets Your Body Movin"—somewhere amidst the mess of their own pop-infused chaos—the strained voices of Brooklyn's Suckers unleash fistfuls of sunshine. The band's debt four-song EP, released in April off I Am Sound Records, is experimental pop music at its best. Look past the terrible name and the goofy get-up: this a band worth keeping an eye on. 

Suckers - "It Get's You Body Movin'" (from Suckers EP)