Sur-rur – Liikkuu Kivipinnoilla Asumuksenaan Laatikko CD
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Sur-rur – Liikkuu Kivipinnoilla Asumuksenaan Laatikko CD
"Sur-sur is often spoken of as the author of great songs, and the trio have introduced one or even three of them in their releases to date. Above all, however, it is an ensemble of good album ensembles, from the records of which the return of Urn Dusts is often ranked highest and another anonymous one, the so-called rainbow poop plate weakest. In reality, there is not much difference between the two edges, except for the number of songs.
Both records are amazing in their own ways: with the less frequent Urn Dust, the individual songs emerge, while the rainbow poop of nearly 20 songs accentuates the whole, although in principle it would be the other way around. The fourth album of the Helsinki-Turku trio is by definition somewhere between the two: the reel of eighteen songs has a slew of great rumble pop works and it also forms a coherent and load-bearing album ensemble.
Moving on stone surfaces, the living room offers a stylishly familiar Sur ruri: fast-paced punk-pop, non-tune and lo-fi, as well as irresistible melodies and a wistfully painting, calmer spaciousness. So the basic idea, and at first it was wondering if the latest Sur-rur offers anything new? At least in the listener's head, more attention has been paid to the lyrics. If it’s due to something musical, it’s probably related to the fact that the record is such a strong and stable performance that you don’t even have to think about it as a listener.
The songs feature, for example, a fierce solar holiday, a surprisingly cunning Flight Accident or a pensive Explosive Head. Essential to Sur-rur’s album, however, is once again the joy of band playing that shines through all the tracks. There’s nothing extra about the trio’s release, but it’s not particularly undressed either. At the same time, its songs are imaginative and multidimensional works for which nothing seems particularly foreign. If Sur-rur had been formed 15 years earlier in America, it would have been one of the bands covered in Michael Azerrad’s book Our Band Could Be Your Life.
If no other reasons are invented, the newcomer of the band, who has reached the age of 15, is worth checking out, if only as an indication of how 18 songs of varying levels and styles, performed in two different languages, become a unified work." - Jani Ekblom