Review Revue: Band of Susans - Blessing and Curse

Welcome to Review Revue, where every Thursday I dig through the KEXP stacks to share DJ reviews and comments written on the covers of LPs (and occasionally CDs) in the ’80s and ’90s, when the station was called KCMU, the DJs were volunteers, and people shared their opinions on little white labels instead of the internet.

Another Thursday, another band I really should have spent some time within the past thirty years. And yet, here we are. Band of Susans was an unavoidable name if you listened to college radio and flipped through the bins at record stores in the '80s and '90s, as I did, and yet I could have told you nothing about them before now (except to hazard a guess that there were probably a couple members named Susan, unless there weren't any and that was the joke). They were from New York, they were noisy and guitar-heavy, and yes, they had three Susans (until they had one and Page Hamilton). And honestly, that's about all you get from the KCMU DJs' comments, but this seemed like a fine opportunity to share this beautiful album cover and enjoy the commenting of Susans upon Susans. Now go hug a Susan, won't you? (If she wants to be hugged, of course.)

This also seems like a perfect opportunity to let you know that lead Susan Robert Poss (not, technically, a Susan) released a brand-new album of guitaral mayhem called Frozen Flowers Curse the Day just this summer. If you've read this far, you should probably buy it.