"American Supreme", their fifth studio album and the long awaited follow up to '92's "Why Be Blue", features 11 tracks recorded over 12 months in New York. The album carries the distinctive Suicide sound, but is no retro package and is without doubt one of the finest albums of their long career. The opening track 'Televised Executions' sees them mix up DJ scratching and funk guitar samples and from then they're relentlessly driven by Marty Rev's digital electronic funk noise on tracks such as 'Beggin' For Miracles', 'Wrong Decisions' and 'Power Au Go-Go'. There's the techno influenced 'Death Machine', the hall of mirrors sound of 'Dachau, Disney, Disco' and the beautiful, haunting electro pulse of 'Misery Train' and 'Child, It's a New World'. Vega's voice has never sounded better, reaching new heights in expressing his paranoid, sci-fi visions of contemporary street life, with a maturity that invokes the crooners of his pre-teen youth.
Initial quantities of "American Supreme" came packaged with an extra live CD, recorded at the famous comeback shows at The Garage in 1998.
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Suicide
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