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| Indie Rock Is Losing Its Edge Right Before Our Eyes (and So What?) Noah Berlatsky Mar 5 2013, 8:46 AM ET Tweet More Email Print Suuns new album drives home that much of the joy of the today's art rock is the way it inhabits a tradition—like classic rock,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], blues, bluegrass, and countless genres before it.Suuns / Secretly Canadian"I always just say [our music] is rock and roll," says guitarist/vocalist Ben Shemie of the Montreal-based band Suuns. "I mean, it is a rock band." And guitarist/bassist Joe Yarmush chimes in, "Live our set cannot be mistaken for anything but rock ... That's where we're at now for sure."They're right: Suuns is rock, and it can't be mistaken for anything else. But that unmistakeability is perhaps not such a good thing as Yarmush seems to think it is. On the band's sophomore effort, Images du Futur, the group has abandoned most of the proggy krautrock flourishes of its first album Zeroes QZ for bog-standard indie-rock formula. The album opener, "Powers of |
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