Album Title: “Eddy Current Suppression Ring”
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Label: Goner Records

Brendan Suppression – Vocals
Eddy Current – Guitar/Keyboards
Rob Solid – Bass
Danny Current – Drums

“In recent years, the music scene has witnessed a technological arms race the likes of which haven’t been seen since the Cold War. Albums have become battlefields, strewn haphazardly with excessive ammunition – effects, studio trickery, obtuse arrangements – to the point where songs become lost in the churning mix.

Eddy Current Suppression Ring took the exact opposite approach to this record, their self-titled debut LP, preferring simplicity and speed over extravagance and professionalism. The result: slop-pop masterpieces anchored by tone-thick bass lines and stinging snare rasps. Eddy’s over-trebled guitar screeches through the mix with simple and repetitive riffs perfectly accented by the rough recording. You hear the mis-struck E strings and feel the sweat of their warehouse as fingers pass like ghosts along the fretboard. Mixing traditional garage snot with a bit of tortured, Guy Piccioto-esque spoken word, Brendan’s vocals duel endlessly with Eddy’s guitar as the record builds momentum from start to finish, ending with the floor-crawling wail of “Turn Your Page.” Messy, homemade, and unrefined, “Eddy Current Suppression Ring” is a snarling introductory album by a well-loved band from half a world away.” – Southern Lovin’

“In a world where indie pop music has gone murky and mopey, songs by garage bands are used to sell cars on TV and real punk rock is in hiding, it’s nice to find a band that didn’t get the memo. Of course, they are from Australia. Eddy Current Suppression Ring: four guys who worked together at a vinyl pressing plant in Melbourne and decided to start a band at the company Christmas bash after-party. Live practice tapes turned into sold out singles and increasingly packed shows. A quick development into a uniquely sincere and simple band that creates increasingly indefinable music. Yes, there are discernible influences: The Stooges, Can, The Fall and Devo. But ECSR doesn’t sound like any of those bands. Or anyone else, for that matter.

In 2008, Goner released PRIMARY COLOURS, ECSR’s second album, in North America to widespread critical acclaim. This is their debut – which never made it out of Australia. A perfect companion piece for PRIMARY COLOURS, their self-titled debut is filled with all the elements that made COLOURS so great: razor sharp guitar, rumbling bass, rat-a-tat drums and lead singer Brendan Suppression’s heavily accented squawk. We invite you to take it for a spin.” – Zac, Goner Records

Crucial Praise for 2008’s “Primary Colors:”

“And for raw power, these Melbourne-based Aussies aren’t afraid to go straight to the source as they channel the Stooges back catalogue. Beneath the Motor City roar, there are subtler nods to the Fall and Sonic Youth…” – PITCHFORK

“The best fun house since “Fun House”… Iggy would approve.” – ALTERNATIVE PRESS

“The best new garage band I’ve come across in a good while.” – UNCUT

“From a plainspoken quartet, one of the year’s best guitar records. 4 stars” – SPIN

“ECSR channel the poppier elements of Wire, The Stooges and krautrock without leaving the garage. Really, it’s impossible to dislike.” #3 of 2008 – Otis Hart, DUSTED