Pre-Order: Citizen Above Suspicion - As Above So Below

Citizen Above Suspicion's debut album 'As Above So Below' released 26 February 2027. Available to pre-order now on limited edition 180g Splatter Vinyl (limited to 300 hand-numbered copies and included in the Fuzz Club Membership) and 180g Purple Vinyl. Available in US store here.

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‘As Above So Below’ is the abrasive, melancholic and cavernous new album from London trio Citizen Above Suspicion, due for release 26 February 2027 on Fuzz Club. Built from driving repetition, dense feedback and an uncompromising DIY approach, it occupies a space where New Wave song structures collide with the texture and intensity of heavy psych and shoegaze. The result is loud and immersive, balancing melody and dissonance, atmosphere and confrontation.

Formed in Hackney in 2024, Citizen Above Suspicion are Baptiste Bernon (guitar), Ben France (drums) and Julia Cadau (bass). Their sound is shaped by layers of saturation, hypnotic repetition and detached vocals, with the band’s visual identity and live performances extending the same sensory experience beyond the music. Following their self-released split single ‘Fear Your Tears / Atomic Dreams’, ‘As Above So Below’ finds the trio pushing further into a world of texture and intensity, while keeping their songwriting direct and emotionally exposed.

Occultism, duality and cinema sit among the record’s central sources of inspiration, reflected in its title and its shifting balance between opposing forces. The lyrics move through loss, grief, ruined friendships and low self-esteem, drawing on past experiences without becoming literal autobiography. “It’s definitely abstract and open to interpretation,” the band explain. “It’s not about understanding it, but absorbing it.” Musically, that openness takes shape through unconventional structures and deliberate imperfections: stray feedback, unexpected notes and rough edges are left in place to preserve a feeling of reality and presence rather than polished precision.

The album was made across several months, with the band writing and recording simultaneously. Drums were tracked in their Hackney practice space, while the remaining parts were built and reshaped in Baptiste’s home studio, where his experience making electronic music informed an unconventional, fragment-based workflow. Self-production gave the band room to experiment freely, from reworking song structures to spending whole days exploring combinations of effects pedals. Many of those pedals were made by Baptiste himself through his work with Rainger Fx and Audio Error.

‘As Above So Below’ is a record made through persistence and resourcefulness. From recording and mixing to artwork, videos and merchandise, Citizen Above Suspicion have kept the entire process DIY, turning limited means into creative freedom. “We care more about feelings, textures, and intensity,” they say—and that principle runs through every distorted, shadowy and hypnotic corner of the album.

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