Suturee - Suturee
By John Michael Cassetta • Jul 14th, 2008 • Category: Album Review, Music
I got an album in the mail the other day from a Puerto Rican band named Sutree. Now, if you’re anything like me, when you think Puerto Rican Music, you think bad thoughts. Like Reggeatron. Luckily, Suturee broke past all my embarrassingly over-generalized conceptions of what their music would probably sound like.
Basically, it’s really good.
The self-title album is at first glance a slow soothing wash of sounds, but like the calm sea it references, there’s an unsettling feeling lurking beneath its soft acoustic guitars. “Afraid of Hands,” which opens the album, features vocal contributions from the group’s two primary members, Julian Brau and Rebecca Adorno. The “ooh”s haunt the background music throughout, while equally cryptic lyrics stand in the forefront: “You to me, shouldn’t be, afraid of hands.”
