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The Suits XL - Space Odyssey

The suits XL are a band, that for all intents and purposes, never existed. 

Signed to (full disclosure here) Chad Kroeger’s record label. They were a bunch of francophones and one English speaking dude that made spacey, richly textured pop music. If they were ‘cool’ and existed in a different time, they maybe would have opened for Broken Bells (let’s say) on their Canadian tour.

But, they existed in 2006. 

Instead of trying to give you the full history of a band you’ve never heard of, I’ll be succinct. They flopped. In fact, I’m probably their only actual fan. They don’t even exist anymore.

I wouldn’t have even been their fan, except I was trying to impress a girl I was dating at the time (and I use the term ‘impress’ VERY loosely) and walked in to an HMV with her one day and just started picking up random shit and told her I was going to buy it all.

It was a joke of course, I assume she thought it was fucking hilarious. But to take it one step further, I actually committed, and bought it all.

The suits XL cd was the first thing I picked up. I knew NOTHING about them, but remember saying her. ‘fuck it, is this record gonna suck? Probably’ and tucking it away.

You know where this is heading even before I get the words down on the paper. It didn’t suck. It was really good. Not groundbreaking, but good.

The funny thing about the musical time space continuum is that once you commit something to your brain’s musical library, you can’t un-commit it. The girl and I broke up, and 2006 ended up being an incredibly important year for me. 

The record, was also wonderfully titled ‘quarter life crisis’ a musical cue for me that quotes John Mayer’s ‘why Georgia’ and a term that us, the disaffected youths of the 00s love more than our useless degrees.

Finally, ‘Space odyssey’. Although the record is really cool, ‘space odyssey’ has remained the most enduring gem for me. 

The song imagines a future where a man looks back at his greatest love (in the year 2045) because this is the future, we are led to believe that space travel was responsible for the dissolution of the love… With only the glow of the TV to remind us of what once was. 

Slowly yet surely self realization and doubt sets in where the singer realizes because she disappeared at the peak of their love, she (at least in his mind) never really went away. Their love exists in the limbo of 2045, for better or for worse.

Yep.