ACL Artist Profile: Suckers [Brooklyn]

With nothing but an EP (produced by Yeasayer’s Anand Wilder) under their belts, Brooklyn's Suckers slip into their first ACL appearance this year on the XBox stage Sunday afternoon. Their electro-menagerie might not be best digested in the daylight, but we have high hopes regardless.

There is a certain proximity between the vocalist's grandiosity and Yeasayer or even Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, but to compare it -- and the eerie synths, deceptively simple base tracks, even the production itself -- to them is unfair. Suckers are writing songs out of the Bowie and Ferry book; calling on late '70s and early '80s new wave in a deliciously modern way. The sample track is "It Keeps Your Body Movin'", a slow starting Bunnymen jaunt that dabbles in some Wolf Parade territory, but like the rest of the brief EP, hones in on what we hope will be the future of paisley coated Brooklyn retro-psych.

Suckers [MySpace]