The Last Bison “SUDA” Album Review

This weeks featured band, The Last Bison, released their newest, full-length album titled “SUDA” in September of 2018. Gifting their fans with with an innovative, mature sound that reflects their evolution into this new melodic landscape. All-the-while releasing this album independently.

SUDA  is an encyclopedic lexicon, written in Greek, with 30,000 entries, many drawing from ancient sources that have since been lost, and often derived from medieval Christian compilers.

Which leaves us saying “ah ha, there it is!”

Now come learn about the SUDA album and how it came about!

Secrets Behind The Album

Every album and single has them. Now Nashville Unsigned gifts the album/single secrets straight to your noggin wrapped up in our music reviews. The Last Bison exclusive gave us access to the secrets behind SUDA that will have your fan-girling level soaring. Come take a peek at this behind the album secrets to our featured, indie rock band, The Last Bison.

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• “At some point during one of the songs one of said an elephant sound would be really cool sampled into it. From there it became a thing; we have secretly hidden an animal sound on every song on SÜDA.”
• “The percussion through most of the song, Echo Of Eden, is us beating on our old tour van in a warehouse.”
• “Though recorded in VA, several Nashville based friends helped with the project, including Ryan Swinehart, Jon Smalt, and Carson Cody.”
• “The Album Art was conceptualized by Ben and our friend, and Nashville Unsigned Alumni, Dane Spearman of Vacation Manor.”
• “The Saxophone solo on the song Only Child, is by our good friend Jake Clemons, who as well as having a solo act, also plays Saxophone for the E Street Band.”

MORE SHHHHHHHHHH’s….

• “Our other producer on the record was Jake Hull. Apart from being a musical wonder, he’s on of our favorite humans. He, after seeing the movie Interstellar, spent over a month tweaking and using his pedal board and electric guitar to recreate the organ sounds from Hans Zimmer’s score to a tee.”
• Ben wrote the song Gold very late into the recording and it was an addition to the record close to the end of the process. The song Echo Of Eden was added even more last minute, and was pretty much arranged on the fly.
• “When we were mixing the song SÜDA there was something missing. It packed a punch, but wasn’t hitting as hard as we wanted to yet. We were at our bud Ryan Swinehart’s home studio mixing and it was pretty late and we decided to call it. Before we all left the room though we all agreed it needed lyrics and a vocal melody over the bridge. As is the bridge was  just a long instrumental. Andrew decided that Ben had to wake up at 7am and just go into the vocal booth and make something up. Sure enough, Andrew made Ben get up at 7 and the lyrics and vocal part that’s on the bridge was miraculously the first thing He sang. Andrew had a hunch and it paid off.”
• The process of creating SÜDA from writing the first song to releasing the record was a 4 year Journey.
• “The Van we beat on and recorded for percussion broke down during the process of recording the record. Luckily we just found and bought a new van, so we can take these tunes on the road! RIP The VAN!”

Songs From SUDA

COLD NIGHT

“We all have memories of experiences that deeply affected the way we individually view the world and the people around us. As we grow older many of the details of those memories begin to fade,” Hardesty tells Billboard. “For me, often times I don’t realize how significant those moments were until trying to recall them years later. This song is an internal dialogue about that process…trying to connect the dots and fill in the missing details of a distant memory.”

BY MY SIDE

This feel-good and nuanced indie rock ballad will literally pluck you right from your physical existence, smoothly transitioning you into the peaceful landscape of a rain forest. Not only does the tender synthetic jam caress your emotions lyrically but instrumentally it lets you ride out those emotions in full course. This is best served up in the Amazon rain forest but if that isn’t accessible then a simple back yard with some trees, rain and an ambiance will do just fine.

GOLD

This epic single is the first single off of the album to launch a music video, which you can find HERE. GOLD lyrically references the influencers in your life that have gifted you some sort of “GOLD” that isn’t materialistic or monetary. The subconscious lessons you’ve acquired along your journey through these influential figures. The single is certainly one of the harder hitting singles of the album that some back roads and lowered windows ambiance would probably dance nicely with one another.

SUDA soothes the soul

Now the rest is up to you! Below you can stream the entire SUDA album from featured band The Last Bison, and trust us, it’s wildly addictive. This album gives a true definition of genres breeding to form something abstract and different. Breathing life and diversity into your soul and snagging a perfect little niche spot in your music heart you had no idea needed to be filled.

Dare we say it, but then again we are branded to anticipate the “Next Big Thing”, but we give our Grammy vote this album SUDA by The Last Bison. From stepping out of the norm on production, lyrics, Ben’s vocal diversity and more, we deem this album Grammy worthy. Now go stream it! You’ll thank us for the push!

Be The First To Know About The Last Bison

There’s only one way to truly stay up-to-date with how quickly this bison is moving these days. That way is to jump over to their website and get on the mailing list at https://www.thelastbison.com/

And because social media is a direct lifeline to the band, jump over the each of their socials and follow them. FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, TWITTER, YOUTUBE and SPOTIFY.

If you missed our interview with The Last Bison then CLICK HERE to check it out.

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