"Home / Is where you wanna go to / When you’re alone / And no one really knows you..."
The askew, unwinding, psychedelic bluesy art rock surprises of "Home" by Kansas City experimentalists Suneaters, and the debut single of their 5th studio album "Suneaters V: Heroic Dose", draws you in with deliciously upfront electric guitar, a mysterious narrative and unpredicatable songwriting constructions. To say that the song unfolds, feels like trying to navigate the massive maze at the Overlook Hotel (in that one Stanley Kubrick film) is not hyperbole. I fall hard for songs that cajole you and then stun you with cool original sonic shapes and "Home" does just that. It also does not feel tethered to a particular era, it floats among 70's psychedelia (those fluttering organs and space rock guitars), 80's art rock (the piercing weird sonic painting), 90's indie (the simmering sludge pop-ness), all, I might add, sprinkled with hippie dust. Song like this are difficult to decipher in terms of comparisons to other bands / artists but I do feel a sort of algamic lava of artists like BeBop Deluxe, Built To Spill, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Chain and Hum. How fucking cool is that?
Pretty damn cool.
LINER NOTES (excertped / bracketed):
[Even while their last studio album, Suneaters IV: Absinthe Makes The Heart Grow Fingers was listed as one of the best albums of 2022, it’s ambitious to make the next studio album a double. In their defense, Suneaters V: Heroic Dose (Available June 19, 2026 Digital and Double LP), organically grew to its eventual size, and like fingerless gloves, gets the job done with minimal fuss.
Can you call a double LP with a scattershot array of tastes/flavors, themes, and styles at all “minimal”? Mostly it’s a four-sided hunting blind. Peak your head through the flaps to see what waits for you. Beauty – a sunset. Creation – a sunrise. Destruction – thunder and lightning.
Targeting ears and attitudes. Targeting hearts and minds. Stories about precise moments captured that are to be endured or celebrated. Precise moments of heart ache, rejection, or disappointment, ecstasy, transcendence, power, aggression or love. A heroic dose of these things that cripple or teach. All on four sides. A square.]
"Suneaters V: Heroic Dose" releases June 19 on Lotuspool Records."
-Robb Donker Curtius
Targeting ears and attitudes. Targeting hearts and minds. Stories about precise moments captured that are to be endured or celebrated. Precise moments of heart ache, rejection, or disappointment, ecstasy, transcendence, power, aggression or love. A heroic dose of these things that cripple or teach. All on four sides. A square.]
"Suneaters V: Heroic Dose" releases June 19 on Lotuspool Records."
-Robb Donker Curtius
LYRICS
Home
Is where you wanna go to
When you’re alone
And no one really knows you
Home
Is where you’d think you’d go to
When you’re alone
And no one wants to know you
But while the evil things in life are free
You pay for them every day
When you go home
And no one really knows you
Life,
Was truly cruel
With no place for no one, but you
Love
Gave you shelter
From your enemies, insecurities
And when she had the radio active
It made you feel okay
For Years
But then you woke
To be told
You're the butt of the joke.
He said “home”
“Is where you’re happy”
And he said “home”
“Is not where you’re not free”
And while he paid for all his evil ways
He reminds us every day
That anybody’s home
Can be taken away
Take it away
The Chicken Wheel will take you to the AP Go Fund Me- and any amount is so appreciated!
Home
Is where you wanna go to
When you’re alone
And no one really knows you
Home
Is where you’d think you’d go to
When you’re alone
And no one wants to know you
But while the evil things in life are free
You pay for them every day
When you go home
And no one really knows you
Life,
Was truly cruel
With no place for no one, but you
Love
Gave you shelter
From your enemies, insecurities
And when she had the radio active
It made you feel okay
For Years
But then you woke
To be told
You're the butt of the joke.
He said “home”
“Is where you’re happy”
And he said “home”
“Is not where you’re not free”
And while he paid for all his evil ways
He reminds us every day
That anybody’s home
Can be taken away
Take it away
The Chicken Wheel will take you to the AP Go Fund Me- and any amount is so appreciated!
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
Suneaters was formed by Chris Lost after returning to Kansas City following the fallout of Los Angeles-based glam rock band Dr.Doctor, which had consisted of Lost, artist Mark Silverberg, and writer/actor Michael McMillian. Hoping to follow in Dr.Doctor's footsteps, Lost recruited Scott Hartley, a local Dadaist, to play bass, and David Saab, a poet and attorney, on drums, to form a trio known as Suneaters.
After releasing Suneaters I in 2011, an experiment in pop and psychedelic noise, Suneaters recorded Suneaters XIII in 2012, a soundtrack for McMillian's short film, Charlie 13. The band then focused on playing live, attempting to rely less on pedals/electronics for sound. Through this exercise, the band created a pop-esque album titled Suneaters II: Loving Relationship. For this album, released in 2015, Hartley and Lost recruited Chris Cardwell and Michael Judd.
To promote Suneaters II: Loving Relationship, W. Dave Keith created a video version of the album just titled "Loving Relationship".
For their latest album, "Suneaters IV: Absinthe Makes The Heart Grow Fingers", they recruited legendary Lawrence, KS punk rock bar owner and musician, Nick Carroll to sing, play drums, and various other instruments. Carroll opened The Replay Lounge in 1993, which has been a destination for all live musical forms since its origin.
Suneaters cite their primary musical influences as SST Records, Led Zeppelin, Hanatarash, Flipper, INXS, Kool Keith, and Graham Nash.
After releasing Suneaters I in 2011, an experiment in pop and psychedelic noise, Suneaters recorded Suneaters XIII in 2012, a soundtrack for McMillian's short film, Charlie 13. The band then focused on playing live, attempting to rely less on pedals/electronics for sound. Through this exercise, the band created a pop-esque album titled Suneaters II: Loving Relationship. For this album, released in 2015, Hartley and Lost recruited Chris Cardwell and Michael Judd.
To promote Suneaters II: Loving Relationship, W. Dave Keith created a video version of the album just titled "Loving Relationship".
For their latest album, "Suneaters IV: Absinthe Makes The Heart Grow Fingers", they recruited legendary Lawrence, KS punk rock bar owner and musician, Nick Carroll to sing, play drums, and various other instruments. Carroll opened The Replay Lounge in 1993, which has been a destination for all live musical forms since its origin.
Suneaters cite their primary musical influences as SST Records, Led Zeppelin, Hanatarash, Flipper, INXS, Kool Keith, and Graham Nash.
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