PATRIARCHY – Suffer with Me (Live in London)

RELEASE YEAR: 2025
BAND URL: https://www.gymnocal.com/blogs/news/patriarchy-suffer-with-me-live-in-london

How to even describe the US-based Patriarchy without doing them an injustice? Weaving various musical genres and influences such as post-punk, electro rock, industrial music, harsh ambient, and a demented brand of synth pop together to great effect only gets us halfway there, which is merely another way of saying that their recently released live album, which was captured for posterity at the Moth Club in London last year, is meant to digested and experienced fully and wholeheartedly in the privacy of your own bones and inner demons.

Catchy and compelling, unnerving and oftentimes unfathomably dark, Suffer with Me is nothing if not an absorbing and challenging listen, and as a live album it succeeds in transporting the listener to the murky and presumably packed London venue with the outfit performing their passionate rituals right in front of you. All you need to do is close your eyes.

Emotionally intense, charged with a propulsive energy, and full of interesting textures and dense soundscapes that will make your head spin, this is as raw and potent as one could have hoped for. The whiff of inner desires and bleak thoughts courses through all fourteen tracks and will make you forget the outside world if only for a little while, which is obviously what any live document should strive to do. “He Took It Out,” “Suffer,” and “The Man for You” are arguably the most memorable cuts on the disc as the way in which the rhythmic feel of the tunes blends perfectly with the synthesizers and vocals, and their inherent drive and the way in which they exude a thick and tense atmosphere are the stuff that anguish and distressing thoughts are made of. Sonically speaking, the whole thing is rough around the edges, but all the nuances and layers come to the fore, so no real problems in that department either.  

This unfiltered beauty is distributed by Apollon Records / Gymnocal Industries in Europe, so head on over to their respective websites for more information. Whether you will regret it or not remains to be seen as Patriarchy are not for the fainthearted.