the suitcase junket

​The Suitcase Junket (from the album The End is New available on BMG) (by Bryant Liggett)
2020 is a perfect year for the genre of Doom Folk to take hold. It’s how Northeast-based musician The Suitcase Junket (aka Matt Lorenz) along with pal and co-producer Steve Berlin (of Los Lobos), categorize his latest; a musical mix of Avant-garde Blues and Pop Psychedelia where electric Folk does a socially-distanced dance with gritty Garage Rock. But the latest release from The Suitcase Junket, The End is New, digs in deeper, a lyrical examination of self and scene, where emotion is high and laid on heavy. The End is New is rough around the edges sound with widespread appeal from Emo punks to sentimental Folkies.
The Suitcase Junket toys with noise for the 33-second intro opener that gives way to a finger-picking Blues groove where he sings of the an outer, unattainable, cold reality in “Black Holes and Overdoses”. The End is New sings about ‘just another human disaster’ and the inability to avert eyes on “Cant’ Look Away” while “Jesus, King of the Dinosaurs” starts as a sentimental Folk ballad before kicking into a Pop-gem. “Breathe Forever” is an anthemic Rocker aiming for stadium-seating back rows, the line ‘I don’t mind dying but I’d really like to breathe forever’ set for lighter-raised singalong, and “Rock Bottom” is laid-back, lazy and cool. The Suitcase Junket dishes out a big, catchy, easily digestible buffet of Rock music. There are a few curveballs, DIY and rough in all the right places while also slick in production to deliver a polished product. (by Bryant Liggett)
 
Listen and buy the music of The Suitcase Junket from AMAZON
 
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