Susanne Lewis

In a less ridiculous world, Susanne Lewis would need no introduction. For more than 40 years, she’s released brilliant, fearless records with Corpses As Bedmates, Thinking Plague, Kissyfur and Hail. No two sound alike, and each opens its own strange, vivid musical space.

An inventive musician and volatile singer, Susanne Lewis makes complex, disjunctive structures feel natural and alive. Her songs slip between serenity and delirium, turning dream-language immediate and everyday moments uncanny. Rather than fit a genre, her work builds one as it moves.

This reissue of her eponymous 2000 solo release, Susanne Lewis, was lovingly remastered from the original DAT tapes and arrives on LP for the first time via Concentric Circles. Accessible on the surface, it reveals deeper musical and emotional layers with every return. Words by Brandan Kearney, author of On Cinema At the Cinema.