Photo by Zoe Griffing Heller

Suitor sound like the kind of band that would have received their own dedicated chapter in Lol Torhurst’s GOTH: A HISTORY had they been around making music nearly five decades prior. This is to say that the Ohio five-piece’s smeared makeup blend of prickling post-punk angles and blushed, dreamy pop with a few art-rock swerves thrown in as vocalist Emma Shepard’s presence in it all is bridal-veiled beneath a corroded cassette tape hiss breaks its own ground by not necessarily fitting neatly into one corner beyond a very dark one.

“Factory”, the lead single from the band’s debut full-length, Saw You Out with the Weeds — recorded with arguably one of their few kindred spirits in that realm in Sweeping Promises’ Caufield Schnug and Lira Mondal — is definitely a first impression look that stays with you, right down to its VHS-quality picture-in-picture visuals directed by Choir Boys’ Adam Klopp that looks like it could have been placed somewhere on a TV screen playing somewhere in Series 7: The Contenders. Like the scene’s earliest inhabitants, the band doesn’t need to be decked out in all black to get the point across that this is intended for dancing in the dark. Suitor thrive there to spite everything else going on in the world around them.

Directed by: Adam Klopp

Suitor’s Saw You Out with the Weeds will be released March 20th on Feel It Records.