Suckers - "Roman Candles" (Live @ Viva Radio)

Me + You #49: Suckers - It's no secret that the combination of somewhat older/contained good-looking New Yorkers with seemingly effortless psychedelic flair and classic pop intentions is a winning formula. We've seen it in MGMT, Chairlift, Amazing Baby, and now we've seen it presented before us in Suckers.

The group came into the studio with a stuffed up Tedward only to clear the stuffy stuff right out of the zone with their therapeutic brand of decongestant tunefulness. Dosage indeed - we were spacedock'd by the sounds they brought with them. Who'd have thunk that four musicians could come together to trace musical lifelines to a single convergent point that evokes a perfect blend of Brian Eno and Crash Test Dummies?

Suckers they ain't if you consider that they didn't let 90's alterna-rock rot away in their tie-dyed deadhead pasts but rather are stringing the skeletons from their closets by the wrists, wearing their fingerbones round their necks like psych warlord manes. Suckers they are for blissful ballads. Suckers you are if you don't watch this video!

Shot by Ryan Morris
Edited by Olivier Zeitoun

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Suckers
• Viva Radio
• Viva
• Radio
• Brooklyn
• Quinn
• Pan
• MGMT
• Chairlift
• Amazing Baby
• Columbia
• bike-psych
• Mischka
• Roman Candles
• Tedward
• Gay Beach
• Shumaker

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Brilliant!