Nick Miller of New Girl didn’t believe we were supposed to talk about our feelings. I agree to an extent. Have you ever asked a friend a simple, “How you doin’?” only to be met with a Dawson’s Creek like response met with too many clichés about growing up and waterworks? It’s awkward and makes me uncomfortable. Thankfully the feelings on Little Suns’ Normal Human Feelings didn’t cause me to look for the nearest exit (like I would with a dramatic friend). You’d think it would but I kind of dug their gypsy meets India meets today sound.
So there are a lot of layers to this record, much like the human psyche that makes up emotions and therefore feelings. On one end you have the vagabond jingles with songs like “Black Elephant” and my favorite, “Sunboat” – which is the answer to, what do you get when you mix Sting, Coldplay and gypsies? That traveler spirit is then intertwined with lavish Indian decadence in “Child of the Night.” Then you get to this point where Little Suns isn’t the band you thought you knew with this tracks that could wind up on the nearest AC radio station near you. “Where Do People Go When They Go Away” and “Wake Up” were completely different from the rest to me.
Little Suns is a band that embraces worldly sounds and tosses them in with contemporary ways but keeps the folk alive and well. If you’re into the obscure and are okay with your feelings and like to express them through song, check out Normal Human Feelings, out now.
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