A breathing tapestry of well-loved Chicago bands, Suns is a new sound made up of old musical souls. Comprised of members from Wax On Radio, Eli, They Found Me They Named Me, and Blame Twilight, the six-piece band made its debut in a big way at the Metro back in January for The Felix Culpa’s CD release show. Now almost exactly six months and countless plays of the band’s then solitary recording, “Little Horn”, later, the boys have released a double EP that is available online via a free download. Close Calls In The U.S. Space Program and The Howl And The Many were unveiled at the end of June and have both proven that Suns explosive Metro debut was anything but a fluke.

Putting this double EP into words is a difficult task, mainly because of the incomparable energy Suns delivers on record- which even at its full capacity we can guarantee won’t prepare new comers for the band’s live set. The striking impression the band made on us from the Metro’s stage is upheld in the EPs, taking all the affluence and other worldliness we remember and doing it one better- because this time we have the option to hit “repeat”.

Close Calls In The U.S. Space Program showcases the band’s talent for richly layering their sound and making the most of their six-man line up without ever sounding dense. As all the strings, pedals, and sticks engulf one another, particularly in the piano supported “Small Parts”, it’s easy to imagine the band s achieving the ability to levitate through their soaring builds. From the ragged cry of “You filled your lungs with the dirt of the grave/ and slept soundly, and now you’ll never worry, deep in the underground/ deep down, deep down, deep down” in opener “Little Horn” to the twinkling synth of “You Are On”, Suns has a quality of foreboding in their sound that makes it feel absolutely imperative you hang on to every word. - reviewsic.com

"A superlative example of how the youngest generation of up and coming musicians is perfecting a conglomerate sound that will transform rock genre musics in ways both familiar and engagingly odd. Robbers toss in a number of unusual factors, from strange spoken satirical rants to electronica to pop to folk, in a highly progressive mode impossible to nail down... a very wide cosmos of influences have resulted in a mega-smooth spacey sound that marries mainlined mellifluous vocals to vaulting arrangements layered in an encyclopedia of sound techniques...
... I can only hope that efforts like this quickly succeed and usher in a new day no one's quite expecting. In a sea of radio moribundity, this is badly needed, might even help spark a rebirth of what occurred in the 70s."

Upon the demise of their long time band, Picture Books, Nicholas Kelley and Nicholas Papaleo had built up a large cache of songs and ideas. In order to operate in an entirely new way they've decided to forgo the usual big band setting they've been used to and are going it as a duo. Expect to see many shows and touring, as well as a debut album later this summer