“It Gets Your Body Movin'”
from the EP Suckers
2009
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Suckers has been gathering loyal followers in their native New York since 2006, and word of this experimental quartet has finally blown down to the Southwest.
Cheesy name aside, one spin of their debut EP should convince listeners that these guys are serious.
“We get the lollipop reference a lot. In New England, we don’t really call lollipops suckers, but in the South and Midwest a lot of people call them suckers. I guess the meaning is open for interpretation,” said multi-instrumentalist Brian Aiken.
A few stellar SXSW sets and notable critical nods later, Suckers is picking up speed. The Suckers EP has garnered praise from Rolling Stone and the perpetually disappointed Pitchfork. Suckers is bringing the kind of accessible experimental music that Animal Collective brought to the last decade; tribal drums, synthesizers and garbled guitars create the kind of organized confusion that reveals something new every time it’s played.
“The last couple months, we’ve really just been practicing three times or week and trying to come up coming up with eight or nine new songs,” Aiken said. “It’s been really productive and it feels like we’ll have another album we’d like to release pretty soon.”
“It Gets Your Body Movin’,“ pushed as the single from the four-song EP, puts up a sleepy front, but the raw energy gives the feeling that at any second the band could digress into a cacophonous ramble.
This untamed enthusiasm is reiterated by the band’s lack of official titles, as members are known to swap instruments mid-set. Aikens claims this adds to not only the production quality of Suckers, but the live show as well.
“I think it’s really different, and it’s definitely pretty exciting to watch live because we’re all doing a lot at once,” Aikens said. “It’s unconventional. It’s a bunch of instruments that we play simultaneously sometimes. I think it’s high-energy, interesting music.”