Leave The Day Behind, by Drive!Sucker

Leave The Day Behind

by Drive!Sucker

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1.	Held You 02:28	lyrics	buy track
Rusted fence where our days were spent Closed off fields of this old town Quiet hours now I'm left to think I miss you now you're not around And if I ever held you, would I lose you again
2.	Car Song 02:04	lyrics	buy track
wind your window girl, let's take it for a whirl hit the volume switch, let's go get out of it
3.	Take Me When You Leave 05:09	info	buy track
4.	Slow Nelsh 03:08	lyrics	buy track
are we even now?
5.	For One More Night 03:00	info	buy track
6.	Minder 03:19	lyrics	buy track
too much time spent thinking, my mind is slowly sinking..
7.	Swim 04:34	lyrics	buy track
let time wash over you
8.	Sweetness 03:16	lyrics	buy track
you know I know
9.	Shades Arcade 04:45	lyrics	buy track
and I still keep an eye out for you

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Connecticut’s Drive!Sucker are completely new to me. They are also superb exponents of both of the above genres that have given me so much aural pleasure.

The post punk angle of the album thrives on energy and darkness, like all the best of the genre should. Tracks such as Car Song and Swim evoke aural inferences of the Art of Noise, with the all the pregnant pauses and glitches replaced with industrial foreboding, fuzz and grumble. Its 80’s ‘dank’ at its best, from a time before the genre morphed into jangle-pop.

They do the other side of the ‘morph superbly, as well. Held You and Sweetness lie equi-distant between the ‘proper Dunedin sound’ of the isolated crisp jangled riffs of The Clean and the subdued dulcet of The Bats, whilst simultaneously being immersed with the sweet melodies of a The Rainyard type sound.

Other janglier tracks like Take Me When Leave and Slow Nelsh have the whirring, slightly psyche, fuzz laden sound, of a Seeking Madras type aesthetic, that slides towards melancholic but never takes the plunge into despair. Such tracks feel like the link between the two genres, without ever revealing any obvious intent to be so.

I know exactly very little about this act. Hopefully this superb debut will change such a trend for many others.

- review from JanglePopHub - March4 , 2021

credits

released April 14, 2021

Thanks to Kevin Siniscalchi for bass on For One More Night, David Heiser for trombone on Sweetness, and Owen James for trumpet on Car Song. Thanks to Rob, Boyd, Owen and Charlotte for suffering the process. Thanks to Jim and Darcy.

Dedicated in memory of Jennifer.

Recorded by Drive!Sucker at Swarthmore Studios, Hamden, CT.
All songs written by Carl James. Published by Penny Whistle Music (BMI).

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Drive!Sucker Hamden, Connecticut

Drive!Sucker started out in Christchurch, NZ, but now live in Hamden, CT. We record when time permits; it’s a slow process. Influences range from folk pop era Bee Gees, Monument era Roy Orbison, the Clash, Postcard Records, early Flying Nun, both Underground’s -Velvet and Paisley, some Comsat’s records, early rock n roll, early country, baroque pop. Guitars should be electric and jangle at volume ... more

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