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Sunflower Bean – Headful of Sugar + In Flight

New York trio Sunflower Bean release their long-awaited new album, Headful of Sugar, today! A psychedelic headrush designed to be played loud with the windows down, it follows the band navigating the agony and ecstasy of contemporary American life. “Tomorrow is not promised, no tour is promised, no popularity is promised, no health or money is promised,” bassist/vocalist Julia Cumming says. “Why not make what you want to make on your own terms? Why not make a record that makes you want to dance? Why not make a record that makes you want to scream?” Headful of Sugar was produced and mixed by UMO’s Jacob Portrait, and co-engineered by the band’s own drummer Olive Faber and Portrait.

Buy the album now, including the vinyl variants pictured below, HERE.

To celebrate the release, the band also share new single “In Flight”. On the track and video vocalist / guitarist Nick Kivlen says, “This song is a romantic vision of meeting a lover, running away together, and entering a dangerous new world. It’s less safe but also less suffocating. The video follows me through a series of twilight zone-style mishaps as I search to be seen or understood. Things only improve when I finally find like-minded people. Is it a dream? Is it the multiverse? It’s for the viewer to decide.

Sunflower Bean - In Flight (Official Music Video)

Sunflower Bean – I Don’t Have Control Sometimes

Today New York trio Sunflower Bean band share their latest single “I Don’t Have Control Sometimes”. On the track Cumming revels in a period of recklessness and instability that brought her to the breaking point that made this new album such a force. But there’s no darkness to mine here, “I Don’t Have Control Sometimes” is a jangly, bright pop song reminiscent of The Cure, confident in its refusal to be apologetic. “I don’t care what tomorrow thinks/ Today I’m totally mine,” Cumming sings, her scintillating vocals communicating a witticism and self-awareness that swallows any suffering beneath.

Julia explains, “I’ve always thought that my reckless side was both a gift and a curse, leading me to my best choices on stage but my worst choices in life. I don’t have control sometimes is admission, acceptance, and almost celebration of the parts of yourself that are impulsive or maybe even insane.

Sunflower Bean - I Don't Have Control Sometimes (Official Music Video)

Their new album Headful of Sugar will be released on May 6th, and follows Sunflower Bean navigating the agony and ecstasy of contemporary American life. The band are currently on the road for their massive Spring tour in support of the album, all dates and tickets available HERE.

Sunflower Bean – Roll The Dice

Sunflower Bean recently announced their long-awaited new album, Headful of Sugar. The band previewed the record with “Baby Don’t Cry” and lead single “Who Put You Up to This?”

Today the band shared next single, “Roll The Dice”,  premiered by BBC Radio 1’s Clara Amfo as the ‘Hottest Record In The World’.  An indictment of the so-called American Dream, “Roll The Dice” was written about how many young adults now need side-hustles to secure their futures. The band explains, “Almost everyone we know struggles with money. The traditional routes towards success and stability in America have severely narrowed. The only way to get ahead is to take big risks and roll the dice.”  The video for “Roll The Dice” sees Sunflower Bean continue on the cinematic journey that began with “Who Put You Up To This?” Listen to the single and watch part II of the story below.

Sunflower Bean - Roll The Dice (Official Music Video)

Sunflower Bean – New Album + Single

New York trio Sunflower Bean – vocalist and bassist Julia Cumming (she/her), guitarist and vocalist Nick Kivlen (he/him), and drummer Olive Faber (she/they) – today announce that their long-awaited third album Headful of Sugar will be released May 6th.

Fuelled by the agony and ecstasy of contemporary American life, Headful of Sugar is a psychedelic headrush designed to be played loud, windows down. It is about outsiders disillusioned with the modern world who, despite their alienation, refuse to be subdued; buoyed by the relief found in interpersonal relationships that counteract the daily barrage of cheap entertainment and convenience.

If their acclaimed second album Twentytwo in Blue, released in 2018, was a self-described “ode to the fleeting innocence of youth,” then Headful of Sugar shoves the listener into a new, dangerous world, one that is less safe but also less suffocating. “Tomorrow is not promised, no tour is promised, no popularity is promised, no health or money is promised,” bassist/vocalist Julia Cumming says. “Why not make what you want to make on your own terms? Why not make a record that makes you want to dance? Why not make a record that makes you want to scream?

Sunflower Bean also share Headful of Sugar’s opening track, the taut groove “Who Put You Up To This?” The band says of the track, “Are you satisfied? Who put you up to do things that you do? Was it your own choice? Questioning your life is the first step to taking the agency to change it. Sometimes you have to let go of who you have been so that you can become who you want to be.”

Sunflower Bean - Who Put You Up To This? (Official Music Video)

Sunflower Bean – Baby Don’t Cry


New York trio Sunflower Bean — Julia Cumming (she/her), Nick Kivlen (he/him), and Jake Faber (she/they) — return with their first new material of 2021, the incredible new single “Baby Don’t Cry”, premiered by Radio 1’s Clara Amfo as the ‘Hottest Record In The World’. Written by the band, produced and mixed by UMO’s Jacob Portrait, co-engineered by Jake Faber and Portrait, and recorded between Electric Lady and Sunflower Bean Studios, “Baby Don’t Cry” is an exciting taste of what’s to come from Sunflower Bean in 2022.

Sunflower Bean - Baby Don't Cry (Official Visualizer)

The band says of the new song, “So many things in our lives are disposable. Content and news is consumed and discarded leaving us unfulfilled. ‘Baby Don’t Cry’ is about enjoying the real. The things right in front of us that give us meaning and how sometimes, even sad songs can give you that warm feeling of hope.”

Alongside the release, the band have announced new U.K. tour dates for next year, including a show at the Electric Ballroom in London, tickets available HERE.