Introducing: Suckers

Name: Suckers
From: Brooklyn, New York
Story: "Three one-man-bands playing together"
Sound: Campfire collapse, dancefloor daydream, bar-room carousing

As if Brooklyn weren't already teeming with hipster outfits out to completely erase all known laws of genre —from Gang Gang Dance to MGMT to Yeasayer— along come Suckers. The Brooklyn quartet make a gloriously indefinable racket, filled with lusty singing, bashed percussion, and a warped sense of pop 'classicism'.

Suckers are the work of cousins Austin Fisher and Quinn Walker, drummer Brian Aiken, and the mysterious, iconic-singular 'Pan'. With Pan, Fisher, and Walker all swapping instruments, singing, taking lead, and serving as pseudo-frontmen, Suckers function very much as a band; their vocally-driven sound existing in the 'space' between the four of them, their music about this musical communion.

Out of the four, Walker definitely has the most notable pre-Suckers pedigree. In 2008, he released the double album Laughter's an Asshole/Lion Land, a ridiculous, rollicking mish-mash of messy miniatures and Animal Collective-inspired rave-ups released on CocoRosie's Voodoo-EROS label.

Come the '09, though, and Suckers are clearly Walker's focus. With the release of their debut four track EP —a set produced by Anand Wilder of Yeasayer, and featuring guest spots from members of Yeasayer and Dragons of Zynth— there's definitely buzz building; Suckers shaping up as the latest Brooklyn band to blow up.

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