Sliced into fragments of minutes, Suck Susan manages to somehow elaborate on form and function, offering a maze of definitive, decomposed fractures that yield a smattering of processed vocals, samples, found sounds, bass and heavy beat workings.
[Release page] Suck Susan is an interesting project, to say the least. Had imprints like Skam, Merck and even Ninja Tune combined forces, you may get No Head In The Helmet as the result. So as you can imagine, UVG212 and Daddy Tank have unleashed a behemoth of a CDr release in the form of two parts—Reality Block for the first 12 cuts and 12-Bit Dust for the remaining eight. What the ears are presented with is a collage of molten blips, crackles and dusty electronics that lean more on hip-hop foundations rather than IDM terrain. Sliced into fragments of minutes, Suck Susan manages to somehow elaborate on form and function, offering a maze of definitive, decomposed fractures that yield a smattering of processed vocals, samples, found sounds, bass and heavy beat workings. Broken into several bits and bytes, No Head In The Helmet derails preconceived notions of experimentation and instead offers subdued energy bursts draped in a blanket of fuzzy tones, collapsed grooves and broken rhythms. Taken in as a whole, it would have been interesting to hear a small dosage of tracks stretched out a little more, but it seems that the artist simply has hundreds of sonic ideas and this release is a primed collection of these disjointed slivers.
No Head In The Helmet is available on UVG212 / Daddy Tank. [Release page]
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