{"product_id":"susanne-lewis-susanne-lewis-1","title":"Susanne Lewis - Susanne Lewis","description":"\u003cp\u003eLabel: Concentric Circles – \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Vinyl, LP\u003cbr\u003eCountry: US\u003cbr\u003eReleased: 3rd Oct 2026\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Rock, Pop\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Avantgarde, Experimental\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e* SHIPS W\/C 21.09 *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnother pearl of lost left-of-centre American underground recording rescued from obscurity via vital Portland outpost Concentric Circles.  How did we miss this?!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLand on Susanne Lewis’ discogs page and you’ll see a lonely self-titled CD-only release listed against her name.  But dig a little deeper and you’ll find her fingerprints smeared over a vast array of adventurous American experimental music, notably Biota, Geoffrey Landers, Azalia Snail, Kitty fur.  The list goes on.  So why was it that this solo outing went largely unnoticed?  On the face of things, this is a readily accessible album - the opening chords of ‘Five Shades Of White’ are instantly infectious, a total earworm of dry guitar chords, a cyclical guitar riff and Lewis’ confident, gently grungy vocal.  Yet what on the surface seems straightforward is deceptive, her ostensibly pop songs are wrapped around inventive structures and laced with a warm emotional depth that develops on repeat listens.  Maybe it wasn’t weird enough for the underground at the time?  But on second look, It’s a total joy of imaginative and self-assured home recordings, laced full of snappy hooks, warm tape saturation and kaleidoscopic structures that constantly reveal more on each listen.  Just what we want.  Something tells us this won’t be missed a second time around.  (Mint \/ New - with free DL)  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\/\/\/\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a less ridiculous world, Susanne Lewis would need no introduction. For more than 40 years, she has been releasing brilliant, fearless, kaleidoscopic albums with various collaborators and under various names, including Corpses As Bedmates, Thinking Plague, Kissyfur and Hail. No two of them sound alike, none of them sound like anyone else, and all of them have moments that remain startling even after decades of listening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe's an offhandedly inventive musician who makes complex, disjunctive song structures sound perfectly natural, as if they couldn’t and shouldn’t have turned out any other way. A volatile singer who can shift from serenity to delirium in the space between two heartbeats, she's capable of making the most abstruse dream-language feel immediate or, conversely, of making the most mundane experiences seem otherworldly. Her songs do not belong to a genre; they create their own genres as they go, and they typically bristle with more ideas than most of her alleged peers stumble across in an entire career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll this being the case, the persistent neglect of her work by people who ought to know better has something pathological about it. Interesting yourself to any extent in 20th-century underground music while remaining unfamiliar with Susanne Lewis is like being a geologist who has never heard of volcanoes. Had she gotten the full attention and acclaim her accomplishments deserve, generations of lesser talents might never have managed to emerge from her shadow. If she gets it now—finally!—it will be a welcome and very timely triumph of personal vision and artistic autonomy over their increasingly ugly counterfeits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaken collectively, her albums constitute a parallel universe in which the early eighties post-punk avant-garde never ran out of surprises, and this reissue of her eponymous 2000 solo release—lovingly remastered from the original DAT tapes and released on LP for the first time by Concentric Circles—is as inviting a portal to that strange place as any. It’s an accessible and deceptively straightforward album with musical and emotional strata that increase in complexity and depth over repeated listenings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Brandan Kearney (author of “On Cinema At the Cinema Reader”)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Five Shades of White 03:06\u003cbr\u003e2. Human Rocket 04:06\u003cbr\u003e3. Local To Headtrip 02:33\u003cbr\u003e4. Cherry Blossoms 03:33\u003cbr\u003e5. Golden Embued 02:54\u003cbr\u003e6. Lucky 03:59\u003cbr\u003e7. Sunny\/Warmer 03:42\u003cbr\u003e8. 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