{"id":594055,"date":"2026-05-20T09:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594055\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:12:11","slug":"suzy-sheer-pure-pulse-slow-decay-soft-release-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594055\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzy Sheer: Pure Pulse, Slow Decay, Soft Release Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are very few interviews of Suzy Sheer<\/a> online. The enigmatic electronic duo, made up of producer boysinblush and vocalist Tuchscreen, have remained mostly under the radar, despite collaborations<\/a> with buzzy underground stars like fakemink<\/a> and Snow Strippers<\/a>. One of the rare interviews<\/a> you can scavenge comes from a Substack apparently themed entirely around nighttime bus rides; in it, boysinblush describes an imagined 2 a.m. ride home. In minimalistic, impressionistic responses, he notes the minutiae surrounding him: the dirt and scribbles on the seat in front of him, a coffee crisp wrapper in his bag, a kid onboard coughing. \u201cI\u2019m not making eye contact with anyone because I am either too shy or insecure (not sure which),\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n

The piece isn\u2019t really about Suzy Sheer\u2019s music, yet, inadvertently, it totally is. On their debut album, Pure Pulse, Slow Decay, Soft Release, Suzy Sheer\u2019s languid, atmospheric dream-electroclash unfurls like a gentle 5 a.m. comedown on the way home. The production, which features assistance from Playboi Carti and FKA twigs collaborator DJ Heroin, is blissed-out, fuzzy, and glacial, suspended somewhere between Clams Casino<\/a>, the Hellp<\/a>, and Beach House<\/a>. On \u201cSent,\u201d Tuchscreen\u2019s vocals are so hazy they dissolve into postverbal wisps, vaporous as a cloud of condensation. And on \u201cLast Year,\u201d boysinblush and Chandler Moss\u2019 voices flicker and melt, their duet as smudged and phantom-like as reflections in a glass pane.<\/p>\n

No score yet, be the first to add.<\/p>\n

While there\u2019s a clubbish electroclash banger or two on Pure Pulse\u2014\u201cSafety\u201d sounds something like \u201cBlackout<\/a>\u201d reimagined for the irony-pilled strawberry vape generation\u2014most of the album is located in the dawn after a night out, when life\u2019s uncertainties and yearnings are suddenly inescapable in the diffuse violet light. Love, in Pure Pulse\u2019s telling, is all wasted time, missed connections, and hopeless stagnancy. \u201cI don\u2019t wanna take this time away from you,\u201d Moss sighs on \u201cSlow Decay,\u201d mourning a relationship that has no chance of working out. Her voice floats over a slow-burning bed of synths before breaking into a ghostly, glitchy chopped chorus, incessant as a mind obsessed with regret and lost chances.<\/p>\n

These melancholic, nostalgic instincts come to a head on highlight \u201cNo Surprise,\u201d which also features fellow electroclash enfant terrible damon r. The crew tally life\u2019s shortcomings over gentle guitar strums; when boysinblush mumbles, \u201cIf you hit me, better hit me twice\/\u2019Cause I don\u2019t wanna stay half alive,\u201d you believe him completely, if only because his voice is so gravelly and exhausted it sounds like his forehead is already pressed against the wall as he leaves a late-night voicemail confession. Soon, the song sputters into a snowy blitz of chopped vocals, as if all language has been lost; no one knows what to say anymore, or what they want.<\/p>\n

Suzy Sheer\u2019s dream-electroclash calibrations don\u2019t always land\u2014\u201cPure Pulse,\u201d despite Moss\u2019 ethereal vocals, is more sleepy than sensuous, and closer \u201cSoft Release\u201d is mostly electronica backwash. But at its best, the gritty electroclash makes the soft dream-pop production feel icier, harsher, and more unreal; its artificiality serves to highlight a molten core of feeling. On \u201cThe One,\u201d bulbous, deep-fried bass and a pounding four-on-the-floor beat secure the ground beneath Moss\u2019 distant, dreamy vocals, sweeping in like wind over a flat landscape, work through life\u2019s strange ambivalences: \u201cStill think I\u2019d feel the same if we\u2019re not in love.\u201d The song promises, like any long ride home, a moment right on the edge of transcendence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are very few interviews of Suzy Sheer online. The enigmatic electronic duo, made up of producer boysinblush…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[375,96,128,56,54,55,307],"class_list":["post-594055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-albums","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}