SUSTO
Susto is an American indie-rock band based in Charleston. Justin Osborne needed a break. He'd been writing music and making albums since he was 15, and by the age of 26, he felt like he was spinning his wheels. He knew he needed a change, so he ended his old band Sequoyah Prep School and moved to Cuba. He thought he might be done with music for a while, but the songs just kept coming. "I had this idea in my mind that I was going to try and join some kind of Latin American Leftist movement. I wanted to jump off a cliff," Osborne says. "Once I got there I immediately started hanging out with musicians and going to shows. I started showing them the songs from this project that was kind of just an idea in my head. "They were like, 'man, don't throw away your passport, go home and continue to make music,'" he says. "I was encouraged by them to try again." Osborne was already writing the songs for what would be SUSTO's 2014 self-titled debut when his producer Wolfgang Zimmerman introduced him to Johnny Delaware, a guitarist and songwriter who had moved to Charleston, South Carolina to make an album with the producer. SUSTO is a Spanish word referring to a folk illness in Latin America that Osborne learned as anthropology student, meaning “when your soul is separated from your body,” and also roughly translates to a panic attack. For Osborne, the music of SUSTO was something he had to get out into the world. SUSTO released their debut album independently and toured relentlessly to get the word out. They were an immediate hit in their hometown, packing venues, getting airplay at all the bars and even making a fan of Band of Horses' Ben Bridwell. "I got an e-mail from him, telling me he loved the record and wanted to meet with me and Johnny," he says. "That was actually the day I wrote my professor, and I said, ‘I'm not coming in.’" The members of the live band that Osborne and Delaware recruited — Corey Campbell (guitar, keys, backing vocals), Jenna Desmond (bass), and Marshall Hudson (drums, percussion) contributed to SUSTO’s new album & I'm Fine Today, which will be released via Caroline. "We just wanted to go further. We started something with the first record, and we want to keep going in that direction," Osborne says of the album, which finds them taking the spacey country rock of their debut into the stratosphere, piling on layers of sighing keyboards, galloping rhythms and frayed, noisy guitar solos atop wistful melodies and lyrics that examine growing up and growing into yourself. “We put the first record out, and we worked hard, and it just feels like a good place to be,” he says, noting that while the first record focused on his own struggles, & I'm Fine Today is more concerned with looking at the world beyond the struggles in your head. “I’ve learned to appreciate the fact that I just get to be here. It’s all perspective,” he says. “This album is about coming to terms with yourself and feeling okay with your place in the universe." . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
About This Event
GET DOWN (LIVE FROM CODFISH HOLLOW) VIDEO OUT NOWTOUR DATES ANNOUNCED SUSTO released their first ever concert recording Live From Codfish Hollow today. The album was recorded on September 8 s curated Fine2Day Fest. The 24-track set features highlights throughout SUSTOs catalog as well as their renditions of Lana Del Reys Video Games, and the Oasis classic Dont Look Back in Anger.
Live From Codfish Hollow follows the bands 2023 studio collection My Entire Life. 5/10 stars, saying Osborne and company acknowledge the chaos all around us while providing us with a means of navigating it - reminding us that were not alone each song is exceptional. No song is alike.
while No Depression said, Youthful, yearning, wizened experience, and still-flickering hope sit side-by-side in a statement of renewed purpose on My Entire Life, making the band feel matured and vital at the same time. SUSTO frontman Justin Osborne said, This live album is really 10 years in the making. Since we started SUSTO back in 2014, weve never released a serious full-band live album.
So now, with 5 studio albums under our belts, it just felt like the right time to record and release this, and there could be no better place for us to do that than at Codfish Hollow. Since we first played there back in 2015, Codfish has morphed into this kind of spiritual home for us, and we go back there to play and to see everyone, at least once every year. We started holding our own festival there, the Fine2Day Fest, and we made this live record during last years fest.
We combined recordings from 2 nights to create the full record. SUSTO also released the video for Get Down (Live From Codfish Hollow) today as well. Filmed and edited by PERSONA LA AVE, the footage was captured during the two performances comprising Live From Codfish Hollow.
It makes perfect sense, then, that Delaware would call his new collection Para Llevar, which translates roughly as to go or to take. Drawn from Delawares years of journeyingboth physically around the world and internally to find himselfthe record blends elements of Laurel Canyon and Latin America with dreamy, psychedelic production to forge a mesmerizing cultural swirl that transcends borders and traditions. Delaware produced the record himself in addition to playing nearly all of the instruments, and the result is a deeply personal exploration of human nature through the eyes of an itinerant observer, an intoxicating meditation on the doubt and hope and fear and love and loneliness that bind us all, no matter where we call home.