...totally brilliant, even when it hurts
author: Dan Schaffer
BRUISER follows on directly from Susan's first solo project, 'SirenWire69' (2005), and takes her hypnotic harmonies and experimental industrial noise to a new level of despair and delight. Intensely personal, projecting hope and trauma in equal measure, BRUISER tangles the brutal with the fragile in a forbidding texture of sound that penetrates on so many levels at once, it's like being touched by a ghost.
Almost beyond description, BRUISER is like the soundtrack to a film you're never likely to see, it's music that pulls abject horror out of the mundane and displays it with the beauty of Silent Hill and the style of David Lynch on one of his moody days. It's totally brilliant, even when it hurts.
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A work of importance and inspiration.
author: Shaun Blezard (Earth Monkey Productions)
'Bruiser' is... simply stunning, even better than 'SirenWire69' if that's possible. Just love the way it builds on the last album but also takes the work in even more interesting directions... Absolutely engaging and beautiful in a melancholic way. A work of importance and inspiration. A major talent indeed.
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