Suzanne Kraft

From dublab to Amsterdam

Suzanne Kraft is Diego Herrera, born and raised in Los Angeles and trained on saxophone, guitar, bass and keys. He began interning at the online station dublab at around 16, later joined the staff and creative direction, hosted a weekly show for about four years, first with SFV Acid and then Daddy Differently, and spent about six years at the station; he has called it his university of recorded music and experimental music. He moved to Amsterdam for the concentration of friends living there, shared a studio with Jonny Nash of Melody As Truth for about two years, and has since been described as returning to Los Angeles. He co-owns P&D Records with P Relief and hosted the monthly dublab DE show SK Radio from November 2020 to June 2023. Other aliases are Dude Energy and SK U Kno, and the duo No You with Davy Kehoe.

His first real break was "Green Flash" on Running Back (the Green Flash EP, August 2011), followed by Horoscope (2012), Missum (April 7, 2014) and Tracks for Performance (December 2014). Talk From Home (2015) was his first release on Melody As Truth. Later records include What You Get For Being Young (December 1, 2016), Passive Aggressive with Jonny Nash (2017), D.K. / S.K., Framed Space (2019), Slam, A Heart So White and Breath Chant (2020), Between No Things with Suso Saiz on Music From Memory (August 7, 2020) and About You (June 11, 2021), which Resident Advisor's Conor McTernan called an introspective journey showing him moving away from new age and dance music. From 2021 he released guitar-led songs with his own vocals; Piccadilly Records hears hazy guitars and fuzzy 4-track pop sensibilities, with Dinosaur Jr. and Sarah Records among his reference points. A 7-inch, "Sometimes" and "If I Die", came out in September 2023 on Melody As Truth, "If I Die" being a song by Alejandro Cohen's band Languis, and the EP What You Do to Me followed on September 6, 2024. He recorded RA Podcast 453 on February 2, 2015.

He described his method to Objects and Sounds: I just play all the parts and then there's a band. For Talk From Home's 10th anniversary he planned to perform the album in full for the first time, in Philadelphia, at Zebulon in Los Angeles on September 26, 2025, and in Portland, with John Jones of AV Moves joining the live band. Setlist.fm lists 29 setlists, including First Avenue in Minneapolis on May 12, 2022, Dekmantel in Amsterdam on August 4, 2022, FFKT in Japan on May 27, 2023 and the El Rey in Los Angeles on March 19, 2024.