It Gets Your Body Movin’ – SuckersIt Gets Your Body Movin’ – Suckers (Buy)

Usually, an album review doesn’t start out with the overall opinion thrust right into the beginning, because then that leaves very little inscentive for the reader to keep their interest in the remainder. However, all proper protocol is being thrown out the window here. Wild Smile, is a really good debut album from Brooklyn-based Suckers. During the course of the 11-track, 48+ minute compilation, one’s opinion of the music playing at any given moment can sway more than a Jim Joyce call at first base.

The four-piece band has a created an album with a nice rhythmic quality to it, yet it’s very repetitive in the sense that 9 of the 11 tracks have the same song structure to it.  A slow beginning, followed by a catchy section of building, and then a chanting-type bridge, before a harmonious section of instrumentals seems to constitute the criteria for being a Suckers song.  Despite a generally unvarying formula, the record works because of the passionate vocals of lead singer Quinn Walker.

The highlights of the album have to be It Gets Your Body Movin’, which appropriately does want to make you get up and dance, and Martha, an easy to digest track that’s also pleasant on the ears. Neither of those tracks would qualify as “single-worthy”, but both stand out as the best of the rest.

Suckers has a very entertaining live set, and they are opening twice for Passion Pit this week in the New York area (Tuesday at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, Wednesday on Governor’s Island). After that, the band will hit the road late this summer and do a nationwide tour with Menomena.