Gloomy depths below a sun-sparkling surface, magma currents on the seabed, sirens singing through a roaring surge.
The alternative rock band Hard Suit Love from Göttingen/Germany creates songs of oceanic power from heavy seas and quiet waters.
The guitar navigates between melancholic breeze and noisy tempest, at times shimmering boundlessly, at times bursting fiercely after a pause for breath, relentlessly driven by a pounding heart, the vibrant, intoxicating pulse of drums and bass. And above all shines a hypnotic voice, haunting and charismatic, whispering and beseeching, cursing and jubilant. That is what the name Hard Suit Love stands for: forces of nature in energetic interplay, the heavy and the tender united in symbiotic struggle, burning desire, ironclad.
On the Debut EP “Close” the trio dives deep into the musical memory, recovering treasures from the sonic world of the nineties and fusing them into a new sound for the present: reduced to the elemental yet unpredictable, stormy and menacing first, then gently floating on melodic sheen. Chris Isaak joins Pearl Jam to cover Muse, the Afghan Whigs record songs Tom Petty wrote for Radiohead, Nick Cave sails into the sunset with the Queens of the Stone Age and R.E.M. Sounds weird? Sounds good. Danceable and deep. Powerful and catchy. But never irrelevant.
Listen to “Close” here.