Susto
Susto is an American indie-rock band based in Charleston.
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Justin Osborne needed a break. He'd been writing music and making albums since he was 15, and by the age of 26, he felt like he was spinning his wheels. He knew he needed a change, so he ended his old band Sequoyah Prep School and moved to Cuba. He thought he might be done with music for a while, but the songs just kept coming.
"I had this idea in my mind that I was going to try and join some kind of Latin American Leftist movement. I wanted to jump off a cliff," Osborne says. "Once I got there I immediately started hanging out with musicians and going to shows. I started showing them the songs from this project that was kind of just an idea in my head.
"They were like, 'man, don't throw away your passport, go home and continue to make music,'" he says. "I was encouraged by them to try again."
Osborne was already writing the songs for what would be SUSTO's 2014 self-titled debut when his producer Wolfgang Zimmerman introduced him to Johnny Delaware, a guitarist and songwriter who had moved to Charleston, South Carolina to make an album with the producer.
SUSTO is a Spanish word referring to a folk illness in Latin America that Osborne learned as anthropology student, meaning “when your soul is separated from your body,” and also roughly translates to a panic attack. For Osborne, the music of SUSTO was something he had to get out into the world.
SUSTO released their debut album independently and toured relentlessly to get the word out. They were an immediate hit in their hometown, packing venues, getting airplay at all the bars and even making a fan of Band of Horses' Ben Bridwell. "I got an e-mail from him, telling me he loved the record and wanted to meet with me and Johnny," he says. "That was actually the day I wrote my professor, and I said, ‘I'm not coming in.’"
The members of the live band that Osborne and Delaware recruited — Corey Campbell (guitar, keys, backing vocals), Jenna Desmond (bass), and Marshall Hudson (drums, percussion) contributed to SUSTO’s new album & I'm Fine Today, which will be released via Caroline. "We just wanted to go further. We started something with the first record, and we want to keep going in that direction," Osborne says of the album, which finds them taking the spacey country rock of their debut into the stratosphere, piling on layers of sighing keyboards, galloping rhythms and frayed, noisy guitar solos atop wistful melodies and lyrics that examine growing up and growing into yourself. “We put the first record out, and we worked hard, and it just feels like a good place to be,” he says, noting that while the first record focused on his own struggles, & I'm Fine Today is more concerned with looking at the world beyond the struggles in your head.
“I’ve learned to appreciate the fact that I just get to be here. It’s all perspective,” he says. “This album is about coming to terms with yourself and feeling okay with your place in the universe."
Justin Osb… Read Full Bio ↴Susto is an American indie-rock band based in Charleston.
Justin Osborne needed a break. He'd been writing music and making albums since he was 15, and by the age of 26, he felt like he was spinning his wheels. He knew he needed a change, so he ended his old band Sequoyah Prep School and moved to Cuba. He thought he might be done with music for a while, but the songs just kept coming.
"I had this idea in my mind that I was going to try and join some kind of Latin American Leftist movement. I wanted to jump off a cliff," Osborne says. "Once I got there I immediately started hanging out with musicians and going to shows. I started showing them the songs from this project that was kind of just an idea in my head.
"They were like, 'man, don't throw away your passport, go home and continue to make music,'" he says. "I was encouraged by them to try again."
Osborne was already writing the songs for what would be SUSTO's 2014 self-titled debut when his producer Wolfgang Zimmerman introduced him to Johnny Delaware, a guitarist and songwriter who had moved to Charleston, South Carolina to make an album with the producer.
SUSTO is a Spanish word referring to a folk illness in Latin America that Osborne learned as anthropology student, meaning “when your soul is separated from your body,” and also roughly translates to a panic attack. For Osborne, the music of SUSTO was something he had to get out into the world.
SUSTO released their debut album independently and toured relentlessly to get the word out. They were an immediate hit in their hometown, packing venues, getting airplay at all the bars and even making a fan of Band of Horses' Ben Bridwell. "I got an e-mail from him, telling me he loved the record and wanted to meet with me and Johnny," he says. "That was actually the day I wrote my professor, and I said, ‘I'm not coming in.’"
The members of the live band that Osborne and Delaware recruited — Corey Campbell (guitar, keys, backing vocals), Jenna Desmond (bass), and Marshall Hudson (drums, percussion) contributed to SUSTO’s new album & I'm Fine Today, which will be released via Caroline. "We just wanted to go further. We started something with the first record, and we want to keep going in that direction," Osborne says of the album, which finds them taking the spacey country rock of their debut into the stratosphere, piling on layers of sighing keyboards, galloping rhythms and frayed, noisy guitar solos atop wistful melodies and lyrics that examine growing up and growing into yourself. “We put the first record out, and we worked hard, and it just feels like a good place to be,” he says, noting that while the first record focused on his own struggles, & I'm Fine Today is more concerned with looking at the world beyond the struggles in your head.
“I’ve learned to appreciate the fact that I just get to be here. It’s all perspective,” he says. “This album is about coming to terms with yourself and feeling okay with your place in the universe."
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Susto Lyrics
Acid Boys Take me to the train track, get me there tonight. I've…
Black Jesus Sometimes I talk to my parents and they say they…
Black River Gospel Way down in Black River, where my family is from They've…
Chillin On The Beach With My Best Friend Jesus Christ I am a sinner The Son is my only way to…
Chillin' On The Beach With My Best Friend Jesus Christ I am a sinner The Son is my only way, to…
Cigarettes Whiskey & Wine Cigarettes, whiskey and wine are gonna put me in the…
Cocaine Ride with me To buy cocaine Lickin' my hands In the passenge…
County Line Your bra tan bright in the windshield light. Your little mou…
Diamond's Icaro I′m on a one way road to my home on High,…
Dream Girl Lately I've been having the strangest dreams of being held…
Está Bien En la vida Hay tantos problemas Hay dolor Y sufrimiento Esa…
Far out Feeling You could be comatose in a parking lot I could be…
Friends Lovers Ex-Lovers: Whatever Well I knew you for a long time, that was…
Gay In The South Lover of mine I heard you caught it It's a real…
Get Down Oh, well sometimes I get down Hey, then other times I…
Hard Drugs I had a dream that we were doing hard drugs…
Homeboy Homeboy of mine, it's time, He says he's moving to Los…
House Of The Blue Green Buddha Baby says it′s alright If I come out and play Just don't…
Jah Werx Jah Werx & I'm fine today At the same damn time, at…
La Mia I can feel another one coming on I saw it in…
Manual Transmission Longest winter I've had The coldest places I've ever seen To…
Motorcycle Club I've been living in a paper-bag town But I don't want…
My Entire Life If life is a jungle I wanna be a bird Flyin' up…
No Way Out I am a ghost I've been here before Ten thousand years Maybe …
Off You Waiting on the rain To just stop I′m three weeks off cocaine…
Smoking Outside Ashley's smoking a bong, its a tuesday night for Rock…
Vampiro 66 Feeding time…I'm taking you out for another drink. Would you…
Wasted Mind I been hiding something good Something that I want you to…
Waves Is there anybody in there? Smoking weed with God Or are you…
Weather Balloons Hold me down like a weather balloon Tell me how I…