Track By Tracks: The Süns – Sunsets (2025)
1. Warning:
Warning starts the album as a genuine vintage style heavy-rock track in the vein of early Black Sabbath, Edgar Broughton Band, or Buffalo. The song has archetypal kind of rock lyrics. It is about a beautiful and charming woman who plays in her life as if she were starring in a crazy film. She cheats and lies with ease. Teasing is part of her nature and she is a master of seduction. This is our heaviest song. There is a video for it made by our friend Tomasz Domagalski, which is truly special, as we recreated the old tradition of psychedelic liquid art.
2. Song for Someone Else:
The Süns is a chameleon. Their music has two faces. The first one is subtle, poetic, and delicate, and this can be clearly heard in Song for Someone Else. It’s a mellow ballad with a slight 60s psychedelic touch inspired by some songs from Arthur Lee’s Love or Jefferson Airplane. Gwalbert played harmonica in the breaks, too bad it can’t be recreated live.
The video is another masterpiece from Tomasz. You can see a very artistic symbolic wedding of two friends and a lot of subtle shots on location.
3. Blues:
Gwalbert started playing the guitar quite late at the age of 18, at the time he was absolutely fascinated with 60s British blues and bands such as Cream, Groundhogs, Savoy Brow,n or Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation. That’s why his playing will always have these blues elements. This track simply called Blues was recorded on the first attempt in the studio. It shows our garage and kind of uncompromising approach to the genre.
4. Evil Woman:
A short and very catchy bluesy song about a friend of Gwalbert, who turned out to be a good woman in the end.
5. Love Song:
This track and the next one are songs about love and death, and are inseparable. Love Song is very progressive in a vintage way. The song is nearly 12 minutes long and contains a long improvised acid guitar jam, which surely will appeal to fans of krautrock and 60s American psychedelia.
6. Death Song:
The song is inspired by a short YouTube film A 97-Year-Old Philosopher Faces His Own Death which is moving and thought-provoking. It’s not common for a young person to write a deep song about death. Maksymilian played a beautiful sax solo and his melodic bass phrasing is also perfectly showcased here.
7. Bank in Stockholm:
This raw track, based on a tight rhythm section, decorated with a sharp solo of a fuzzed guitar, but also with painful, very personal lyrics by Gwalbert, will certainly appeal to fans of the British Invasion, American psychedelia and classic rock in general. The title directly refers to the Stockholm syndrome. Gwalbert’s personal lyrics deal with betrayal. Longing mixes with rage. The apparent reconciliation with the new reality is quickly overshadowed by a spark of hope that awakens every now and then. However, nothing will happen, the end is inevitable, and life goes on.
There is a music video for the song "Bank in Stockholm". It is deliberately raw and shows the band playing a makeshift concert for a handful of viewers in an atmospheric courtyard. Ultimately, no one stays to listen to the end. There is a lot of dynamics in this video, and many shots showing the band in a garage rock fashion.
8. Two Seasons:
Another subtle one, with a lot of swinging rhythm and a bluesy guitar solo. The song is built around Wojciech’s tight drumming. Maksymilian plays fantastic lines in the chorus. The song tells a story about two seasons - winter and spring. In winter, there are no leaves on the trees and you can see the birds well, and in spring you can fall in love, and the air has the scent of happiness and blooming nature. The changing aura corresponds to the moods of Gwalbert, who does not know whether he can love and whether he can trust. The music video for this song shows these two seasons. The band themselves appeared in it. They throw their hats into the wind and wander around the slag heaps that dominate the Silesian landscape.
9. Mythology:
This is another progressive and heavy song with a lot of moods and changes. Lyrically wise it is about connecting with ancestors by being in the same places where they used to be. The first stanza is about Gwalbert’s grandmother and her roots and the second one is about the old Jewish cemetery nearby. Gwalbert wanted to step outside his comfort zone in the improvised psychedelic jazzy guitar solo.
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