The Eurosuite 'Totally Fine' via Human Worth
Human Worth are proud to present the beautifully unhinged new album ‘Totally Fine’ from London’s The Eurosuite, with a portion of proceeds donated to charity.
Perhaps unsurprisingly for a band featuring members of USA Nails, Nitkowski and Screen Wives, The Eurosuite summon a feral danceable cacophony, falling somewhere between synth-punk, noise-rock and no-wave. Woozy synths with dentist drill guitars, (mostly) one handed drumming and FX drenched vocals.
Sharing an ethos of “first idea, best idea” the band have now released 3 full length LPs into the wild – ‘Hot Off Depress’ (A Tant Rêver Du Roi) in 2020, ‘Sorry’ (Human Worth) in 2023, and now the group have teamed up again with rising independent UK charitable label Human Worth for ‘Totally Fine’, available 18th October 2024.
Produced by Wayne Adams (Petbrick / Big Lad) at Bear Bites Horse Studios, the band have taken a different approach from their maximalist output on their second LP ‘Sorry’ – do less. Where the songs on ‘Sorry’ were built from a variety of jams, band member ideas, traded demos and looped phone recordings, the 10 songs within ‘Totally Fine’ were all built and mercilessly edited from a full band improvisations, with individualism, indulgence and egos set aside to better serve the songs.
That spirit of minimalism is threaded through each track, which veer from sinewy post punk (Crustacean Blue), throbbing death disco (Antimatter) and something between driving krautrock, surf rock freakouts and an evil version of the B52s (12 Diphthongs, Houseplants). Tracks such as “Celeryman” and “Reflection Monster” are arid, spacewalking palette cleansers, stretching the band’s sound further, with cavernous drums, nightmarish lyrics and melting the lines between synth and guitar. Extra production work and canny mixing by Wayne fleshes out each song to its full potential both subtly (Earworm) and overtly (My Trip Away With Friends).
By stripping things back The Eurosuite have reached their own warped vision of pop music, boiling down seemingly atonal building blocks into pure hooks that will linger in your brain for days. It’s totally fine.
Human Worth have pressed up a limited run of ‘Neon Magenta’ Vinyl, housed in a stunning sleeve designed by Dan Holloway, with 10% of all sales proceeds donated to charity Refugee Action – standing up for refugees and people seeking asylum.
FFO: Skin Graft Records, XBXRX, The B52s, Devo, The Locust.
“It’s not an easy feat to create music that is both shimmeringly beautiful and unnervingly chaotic.” – Maximum Rock N Roll
‘Totally Fine’ is out on the 18th of October via Human Worth
