I say this is a return, but in fact it was only this past November that we premiered Melbourne-based artist Sui Zhen's superb video for "Infinity Street" — a perfectly surreal portrait in pastels, replete with fern fondling and the gobbling up of a pale pink brain set to airy, ultra-femme synthpop. Last year the multi-disciplinary artist dropped two EPs, Female Basic and Body Reset, and she's currently prepping to release her full length, Secretly Susan—named after her DJ alias Susan—out via Dot Dash/Remote Control before the close of 2015. Apparently this debut draws influences from Japanese lovers rock, 80s electro-bossanova and dubby-lounge pop. Sweet.Below is a taster from this record. "Take it All Back" balances bassy synths with vocals as tasty as rainbow sprinkles on a single scoop of vanilla ice cream. And the premise? Well Sui Zhen is lamenting being a meanie to the person she loves. "I should have been nice for us… I should have made us food that night, I wanna take it all back," she sings. Well you can't. You never take anything back once it's out there in the world. Regrets are futile: moving forward in action is everything.Listen to more from Sui Zhen here.
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