Montreal band Suuns – comprised of Ben Shemie, Joe Yarmush, and Liam O’Neill – return with brand new material and wil perform at Loppen in November.

The new album “The Witness” (out on Joyful Noise Recordings in September) marks a shrewdly offbeat left turn, and shows Suuns in their most comfortable, candid state. Self-recorded and self-produced over the majority of 2020, a year of strife, solitude and reflection, “The Witness” finds the band holding a magnifying glass over their own default state of playing and performing. It’s a swift departure from previous album “Felt”, and exults in harvesting haphazard ideas in their embryonic, demoed versions, as if letting loose a glorious fireworks display into the heavens.

With the departure of Max Henry as a full time member in 2018 and Shemie now living an ocean apart in Paris, a fresh challenge manifested for the trio to find each other again, both socially and creatively. More than any other Suuns record, “The Witness” employs a jazz mentality of designing a continuous vibe over the notion of separate chapters.