Those familiar with the 1980s television series Tales from the Darkside may be a bit better acquainted with the music of The Bleachers than they realize. In the television show's introduction, accompanying shots of natural settings is a man's voice stating:

Man lives in the sunlit world
of what he believes to be reality.
But there is, unseen by most, an underworld.
A place that is just as real, but not as brightly lit
...a Darkside.

Suspicion is by no means as scary as those shows were to me as a child back then, but the music does seem to channel a bit of the "Dark side" — my initial reaction was that they managed to put a "creepy" filter over the audio — and with opening and closing tracks titled "Witch Trials" and "Poltergeist" I don't think I'm too far off the mark with my theory.

Musically, Suspicion is equally capable of unexpectedly swallowing you up in its hypnotic atmospherics as it is capable of increasing your heartbeat due to an amount of alarming tension. For the most part, vocals on the album are either heavily layered, evoking the impression of a ritualistic chant, or treated with just enough reverb to give an eerie sense of detachment without being over the top.

The Bleachers aren't just creepy atmospherics, though. Such an air of mystery couldn't be created without careful arrangements — which utilize cello and musical saw — and the playing skill required to pull it off.