Throughout their career, Sucioperro have been a band keen
to experiment and evolve their sound. It’s no surprise, then, that Fused – their fourth studio album to
date – turns everything they established with their previous outing on its
head. The polar opposite to predecessor The
Heart String & How To Pull It, Fused
is a tense, aggressive album full of chunky riffs and pissed-off-at-the-world
lyrics.
A crushing, discordant riff introduces the listener to
the record as opener A River of Blood
drives the album onwards at a pace which is scarcely let up throughout its
surprisingly short running time. While previous Sucioperro albums have
approached the hour-long mark, Fused
is a relentless twenty eight minute thrill ride.
Throughout tracks like Pig Ravens, Discipline Office
and What a Fucking Chump, the band
feel like they really have something they need to get off their chests. It’s this
sense of urgency and importance that makes the album so compelling: it draws
you in and captivates you in the way a protester might when making an
impassioned argument.
That’s not to say there isn’t the odd quiet moment on the
album, though. Mid-album track Rabbits in
Boxes begins fairly tenderly before a thunderous hypnotic riffs crashes in
halfway through. Despite its initial happier sound, however, the track is laced
with the venomous tension that runs through the entire record: vocalist JP Reid
ominously sings that “your teeth are sharper than daggers, your tongue it cuts
like a razor, your eyes reflect like a knife edge, you lips love sucking on
cold flesh.”
Fused, then, is
an album unlike Sucioperro’s last. Returning to the heavier sound of the band’s
beginnings, it’s a strong and powerful LP: a gloriously merciless twelve track
barrage of alt-rock doom.
Fused is out on
the 3rd of September via Medals for Everyone.
ES
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