Cassette release of the sold out LP on We Don’t Make It Records from 2019. Two-piece lo-fi garage / indie-pop band from Switzerland. Guitar and drums, both members sharing vocal duty.

SUN COUSTO make a somewhat confusing statement on their bandcamp page: “hopefully we don’t know how to play.” Well… the playing on this cassette is loose and rather unpolished, but that isn’t automatically a bad thing. A uniquely interesting opportunity does arise from such a scenario — no rules, no theory, no overthinking. If it sounds good, that’s the song! 

There are some elements within the course of the SUN COUSTO cassette that I find interesting, but other parts feel like they’re building toward something that never quite arrives. Songs latch onto an idea and just kinda stay put. The droney repetition is entertainingly hypnotic at first, but tends to keep going on and on until they start to feel like a bit of a slog. There’s even a track pushing ten minutes on here. TEN! That’s gotta be three times longer than any song I’ve EVER played on! 

Bands need to play to their strengths and SUN COUSTO hit that when they keep it simple. A couple of the shorter tracks are catchy and kind of pretty, and there’s a super fuzzed-out, nasty track which really works.
All in all, it’s interesting. Not everything lands for me, but there’s something there and I would go see them live in a heartbeat.

Label: Burning Sound Records

Band: SUN COUSTO