SPILL NEWS: SUNFLOWER BEAN ANNOUNCE FIRST SELF-PRODUCED EP | SHARE LEAD SINGLE “SHAKE” & ANNOUNCE CLUB SHOWS

SUNFLOWER BEAN ANNOUNCE FIRST SELF-PRODUCED EP | SHARE LEAD SINGLE & ANNOUNCE CLUB SHOWS

TITLE TRACK “SHAKE” OUT NOW ON LUCKY NUMBER MUSIC

New York trio Sunflower Bean—vocalist and bassist Julia Cumming (she/her), guitarist and vocalist Nick Kivlen (he/him), and drummer Olive Faber (she/her)— will release their new EP, Shake, on September 27th via Lucky Number. The band’s first fully self-produced and recorded project, Shake features some of Sunflower Bean’s heaviest, most immediate and loudest music to date. Influenced by the doom-laden, heavy metal sound of the likes of Black Sabbath, the EP is an embrace of rock tropes and excess, and recalls the sound of the band’s earlier projects, Show Me Your Seven Secrets and Human Ceremony.

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,” Sunflower Bean says of the EP. “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.”

Shake is Sunflower Bean raw and unfiltered, in the band’s most natural state. To further that theme the band will release a 14-minute performance based video to showcase each track via an interpretation of the natural elements: earth, wind, water, fire, and metal. To achieve this, Sunflower Bean worked with Isaac Roberts, a young, rising director from Toronto. The band shares the first chapter ‘earth’ today with the video for title track and lead single “Shake”.

Sunflower Bean will celebrate Shake with four US club show underplays in NYC, LA, Chicago and Austin where they will showcase both the EP and further new music. Dates and venues listed below.

Sunflower Bean have made a name for themselves as one of NYC’s quintessential indie rock bands over the past decade since forming in 2013. What started as a project of three high schoolers soon turned into a band with chart-topping releases, sold-out tour dates, international festival slots, wide-spread critical acclaim, and three remarkable full-length albums under their belt. Further, Cumming recently featured on Yves Tumor’s ‘album Heaven To A Tortured Mind, while Nick Kivlen and Olive Faber featured on and recorded Frost Children’s “Serpent” from their album Speed Run.

Known for their improvisational live performances, Sunflower Bean has toured the world extensively, as both headliners and as support for artists such as Beck, The Strokes, Cage the Elephant, Interpol, Courtney Barnett, The Pixies, The Kills, DIIV, Courtney Barnett, Wolf Alice and more. They have also performed at major festivals like Glastonbury, Governors Ball, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Reading & Leeds, and opened for Bernie Sanders during his primary campaign rallies.

Tour Dates

October 2 – Brooklyn, NY – Baby’s All Right
October 9 – Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon
October 12 – Chicago, IL – The Empty Bottle
November 16 – Austin, TX – Empire Control Room

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Background Photo Credit: Yulissa Benitez

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