Band of Susans

1986–1995·New York, NY

Robert Poss and Susan Stenger's three-guitar NYC project. Built around drone, overtone ringing, minimalist composition applied to rock structures. More academically rigorous than most noise rock but just as loud. Five albums of patient, architectural distortion on Blast First and Restless. Bridges the downtown classical scene and the East Village noise rock underground in a way almost nobody else tried.

People

Robert Poss
guitar

Band of Susans' guitarist and co-founder. Also a serious minimalist composer. Band of Susans' whole thing — three guitars playing drone-based overtones — is basically Poss's concept for rock music.

Susan Stenger
bassvocals

Band of Susans' bassist, co-vocalist, co-founder. Classically trained — flute and composition — with a parallel life as a serious avant-garde composer. Bridged the downtown composition scene and the East Village rock scene in a way almost no one else did.

Discography

1988

Hope Against Hope

Blast FirstLP
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1989

Love Agenda

Blast FirstLP
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1991

The Word and the Flesh

RestlessLP
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1993

Veil

RestlessLP
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1995

Here Comes Success

RestlessLP
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