The Suffers have shared their new single “Gwan (Cumbia Mix),” which is slated to appear on the deluxe edition of their critically acclaimed 2022 album It Starts With Love. The deluxe edition is out June 2nd via Missing Piece Records,  almost exactly one year after the original’s release. The single is accompanied by a live video of The Suffers performing the new Cumbia version of “Gwan.”

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“‘Gwan’ is a classic lust song about safe sex, and the joy that comes with practicing it,” shares frontwoman Kam Franklin. “It originally appeared on our debut EP, Make Some Room, in 2015, and we played it on our national television debut on The Late Show with David Letterman. The song appeared in an episode of Mr. Robot, and we even busted it out as the closer for our NPR Tiny Desk performance. Cumbia music has played just as big a part in our band’s foundation as soul music. All of us grew up listening to it, dancing to it at parties, and playing it in various bands before finding ourselves in The Suffers. Recording a Cumbia version of ‘Gwan’ felt like a natural contribution to our endless tribute to the city of Houston, and this version shows a different part of our rhythmic heartbeat as a music collective.”

Mixed by GRAMMY-winner Adrian Quesada (Black Pumas), who transferred all of the sessions to analog tape, and mastered by Chris Longwood (Khruangbin, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic), It Starts With Love is an album for survivors, for the down and out, for the doubted and the written off, but it’s delivered with the kind of faith and conviction that ultimately transcends pain and anger to instead land on something far more triumphant and spiritually rewarding.

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