Counting Sunsets
Suss
Counting Sunsets is the seventh studio album from SUSS — the New York City trio of Bob Holmes (acoustic guitar, synths), Jonathan Gregg (pedal steel), and Pat Irwin (piano) — released on May 15, 2026 via Northern Spy Records. The album consists of ten tracks, each simply titled "Sunset I" through "Sunset X," forming a meditative, episodic sequence that the band describes as "a quiet preoccupation with memory and the slow erosion of time." Recorded more quickly than their previous releases — after a year spent on the road together — Counting Sunsets is notably tighter and more focused than much of their back catalogue, with songs running mostly three to four minutes in length rather than the expansive, double-digit runtimes that characterized earlier work. Mixed by Irwin himself and mastered by ambient music stalwart Taylor Deupree, the record strips the arrangements back to emphasize negative space, tone, and decay.
Sonically, the album represents the fullest realization yet of the genre SUSS has spent nearly a decade pioneering: what critics and the band themselves call ambient country, a fusion of Americana instrumentation — pedal steel, acoustic guitar — with electronic atmospheres and a deeply unhurried pace. Bandcamp named it Album of the Day, and KLOF Magazine called it their "finest, most fully realised expression" of that sound, while Sun 13 described it as "the logical conclusion to ambient-country" and potentially the band's magnum opus. Where 2024's Birds & Beasts carried overt political weight, Counting Sunsets turns inward, evoking the gradual shifting of light at dusk — intimate, elegiac, and quietly immersive.
Counting Sunsets
Suss
Counting Sunsets is the seventh studio album from SUSS — the New York City trio of Bob Holmes (acoustic guitar, synths), Jonathan Gregg (pedal steel), and Pat Irwin (piano) — released on May 15, 2026 via Northern Spy Records. The album consists of ten tracks, each simply titled "Sunset I" through "Sunset X," forming a meditative, episodic sequence that the band describes as "a quiet preoccupation with memory and the slow erosion of time." Recorded more quickly than their previous releases — after a year spent on the road together — Counting Sunsets is notably tighter and more focused than much of their back catalogue, with songs running mostly three to four minutes in length rather than the expansive, double-digit runtimes that characterized earlier work. Mixed by Irwin himself and mastered by ambient music stalwart Taylor Deupree, the record strips the arrangements back to emphasize negative space, tone, and decay.
Sonically, the album represents the fullest realization yet of the genre SUSS has spent nearly a decade pioneering: what critics and the band themselves call ambient country, a fusion of Americana instrumentation — pedal steel, acoustic guitar — with electronic atmospheres and a deeply unhurried pace. Bandcamp named it Album of the Day, and KLOF Magazine called it their "finest, most fully realised expression" of that sound, while Sun 13 described it as "the logical conclusion to ambient-country" and potentially the band's magnum opus. Where 2024's Birds & Beasts carried overt political weight, Counting Sunsets turns inward, evoking the gradual shifting of light at dusk — intimate, elegiac, and quietly immersive.