Susannah Stark

Susannah Stark is a singer, composer and visual artist from Fife, Scotland. She makes experimental pop songs and soundscapes formed out of exploration into softness and vulnerability. These soundscapes; orchestrated by voice, field recordings, keyboard, trumpet and distorted percussion, are intended to evoke places – both internal and external – connected with experiences of faith and being. Her debut album ‘Time Together (Hues And Intensities)’ released by Stroom in 2020, was described by Noel Gardner in The Quietus as “a seven-song serving of gossamer dub-pop experimentalism” and as a live performance by Jude Browning in MAP Magazine as “music suspending weightlessness and opacity with the unfathomable facets of existence”.

She is currently preparing to release her second studio album in early 2024, together with trumpet player Phil Cardwell and drummer Laurie Pitt.

“a collection of spoken word, poetry, samples and meandering textures atop a sometimes sinister backdrop of kraut, wave and post punk. It’s as much a statement and a reflection on the scenario upon which the world finds itself in as it is musical venture. It’s enchanting, haunting and hypnotic.” The Ransom Note

“a seven-song serving of gossamer dub-pop experimentalism… Stark sings and plays everything on here apart from some guitar on ‘Unnatural Wealth’, a glorious confluence of ghosts and machines that groans and grooves like The Faith Healers or some of the weirder Fugazi songs.” Noel Gardner, ‘New Weird Britain’ in The Quietus

“Stark makes a memorable first impression with her finely accomplished vocal range and nuanced production that perhaps betrays a life spent around this kind of music. As such there’s a rare authenticity of authorship to ‘Time Together (Hues & Intensities)’ that feels experiential, rather than pasted on or worn like some “boho” festival outfit, and likewise that rooting or immersion in folk-pop allows Susannah to best mess with the form from the inside-out, locating something new and timelessly vital in archaic styles.” Boomkat Online