Sunflower Bean Announce 'Shake' EP, Share Title Track
Thursday, 25 July 2024
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Yulissa Benitez
Sunflower Bean have announced a new EP.
The New York trio—vocalist-bassist Julia Cumming, guitarist-vocalist Nick Kivlen and drummer Olive Faber—will release 'Shake' on September 27 via Lucky Number. It marks the band's first fully self-produced and self-recorded project, and offers some of their heaviest and loudest material to date, embracing their roots through influences from heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath. The group commented:
"'Shake' was inspired by our first years as a DIY band, the spirit that birthed us and gave us the chance to have this enduring journey together. We wrote, recorded, engineered, and produced these songs so nothing was filtered through anyone else’s idea of us. We always felt like rock and roll was a feeling, not a sound. But sometimes there is no subverting it or explaining it. We're now offering it exactly as it occurred to us."
Alongside the release, they'll drop a 14-minute music live performance video for each track on the EP, interpreting each of the natural elements: earth, wind, water, fire and metal, a collaboration with rising Toronto director Isaac Roberts. Head below to view the first instalment, earth, with a clip for the EP's title track, which centres around a doomy guitar riff.
Sunflower Bean will play a handful of US shows in the fall. Head here for details. Their most recent album is 2022's 'Headful Of Sugar'.
'Shake' tracklist:
1. Shake
2. Lucky Number
3. Teach Me To Be Bad
4. Serial Killer
5. Angelica
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