Susurrus Station - Add A Day Going West (Aio Records) Susurrus Station is an outfit from Portland, Oregon, led by multi-instrumentalists and vocalists J Breeden and Sara Dyberg. Add a Day Going West is their third and most laboured album, taking a year of borrowed studio time to record, rather than their previous rapid and frenzied approach. The result of their labours is a collection of downbeat, Gothic cowboy tales of desperation and hardship with the weather - hard wind, driven snow and rain - providing frequent metaphors. The eclectic mix of musical (and non-musical) instruments means that it is occasionally flavoured with a Middle-Eastern essence, at others Latin American or North African tastes come to the fore. As a whole it is dark and bleak experience (intentional no doubt) and the (post) production adds a head-spinning wooziness - such as the shifting stereo in “Driven” - to the proceedings. “Arabel” is a lolloping western to which you can’t help but drawl “rawhide” to yourself, “b” rides out into the storm and saddles up strangled free-jazz and “Talking With The Wind” is heavy on junkyard rhythms. On the majority of numbers, where Breeden takes the lead, an estimable comparison would be Robert Smith backed by Tom Waits and the Bad Seeds. www.susurrusstation.com www.myspace.com/susurrusstation www.aiorecords.com Willsk Susurrus Station - Talking With The Wind Next