Wes Anderson, Nico, The Kinks, Todd Rundgren, Barrington Levy, Phil Spector, Max Roach, The Beatles, Animal Collective, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, the "classic era" of sitcom theme songs (who's the boss, full house, etc...), Leonard Cohen, Beach Boys, the instrument, "harp", the Velvet Underground, The Ronettes, Devendra Banhart, Carlo Spidla, Ghostface, Outkast, Radiohead, Deerhoof, Gang Gang Dance
We are very pleased to announce that we will be releasing our first full-length with Chicago-based Common Cloud records. The album is available NOW for a limited-time pay what you can digital download. Get it here:
http://www.commoncloud.com/sistersuvi/
The album will then be released on Vinyl with download coupon on April 14th and we will be selling them at all of the shows on our tour with Thao and the Get Down Stay Down.
Sister Suvi - "The Lot". I leave you with this, for the weekend. People say: okay, Montreal, played out. You've indie-rocked yrself dry, right? Running on fumes? And then we say a lot of things back. We throw fruit; we whip bagels and lob pierogies; we have snowballs and ice-cream cones. We take you the fuck out, you mess with us. I could name a lot of bands, some of the reasons why this city keeps catching me by the throat. But tonight I will name just one: Sister Suvi. You don't know them. Their debut album's not even recorded yet. Merrill's got the big bad wolf in her gut, blow you down.
Here's a song about a city, a city like the place you live - torn up, ripped out, scraped and bleeding and with such a thrill still in it. It's a fervour cooked in subway sparks, in arson, in the heat of kiss on kiss. Sister Suvi use ukelele, drum-sticks and three part-harmony; they use amplifiers and microphones and determination. The song is breathless, brilliant, and magnificently composed. They've listened to the Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane", to Yeasayer, Akron/Family, Deerhoof, and Islands (with whom they share a member). And then they carried their turntable through the streets, raised on poles, to see if they could catch starlight in their records' grooves.
Now all they need to do is make an album like this.
Ear Farm, Band of the Week, Monday, September 15th, 2008.
Sister Suvi (interview and helpful glossary)
Suggestion for an interactive exercise: go ahead and google “Montoronto” and tell us what bountiful treasures the search spiders dig up. It’s pretty much Sister Suvi, Sister Suvi, and…Sister Suvi if we’re not mistaken? Look, this isn’t some weirdo Esperanto scavenger hunt we’re sending you on; trust us, it’s all going somewhere....
One of two new songs by a band whose thrills & spills are more thrilling & spilling than almost anything else happening in Montreal. Sister Suvi boast electric guitar, drums and drumsticks and a ukulele that doesn’t mess around. And their weave of voices is perfect, practised, the stuff of Akron/Family and Deerhoof, of doo-wop and locomotive. The way we’d all whoop different things, barrelling down the tracks; different things and the same. (Sister Suvi are unsigned.)
From Now Magazine, Toronto - Thursday, December. 13th, 2007
with THE HIDDEN CAMERAS at Hart House Rating: NNNN
Montreal/Toronto three-piece Sister Suvi blessed the hundred-plus patrons at the expansive Hart House performance hall with a relentless display of innovative, energetic (and alternating) instrumentation, so much so that lead singer Merrill was tinged crimson by the second song. Her comedic character carried the songs with impressive gusto, and her ukulele skills were not to be scoffed at, especially when she pulled out her violin bow and went to town with an even more animated display of performance power.
A hard act to follow, so the Hidden Cameras went in an entirely other direction....
We need more ukulele. That may be the tactic of Montreal's Sister Suvi, but it's also a cold hard fact that there is a real shortage in contemporary music. Thankfully this trio bring the uke in full on their debut EP, The Color. But for those of you still trying to forget Tiny Tim's multiple appearances on The Tonight Show cradling the instrument, fear not - this band know to use the instrument to its fullest potential without annoying and alienating listeners. Featuring part-time Islands member Patrick Gregoire, as well as vocalist/ukuleleist/violinist Merrill Garbus and drummer Nico Dann, the threesome concoct a Hawaiian tropic that's worldly, harmonious and even a little shambolic (that is in the best way possible).
Just a reminder to listen to SISTER SUVI on THIS GREAT WHITE NORTH. It's an ALL CANADIAN music show FRIDAYS 4:30-6pm CST on 91.7 KOOP FM in Austin, Texas. You can listen online at www.KOOP.org.
Love the new album. Looking forward to seeing you guys on the 18th. I'm putting in a request for the setlist; please play Longlegs. That's my favorite one off the album. Let me know if you guys need any help with anything when you get into town.
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