Sunflower Bean has released the new single “Teach Me to Be Bad” from their upcoming EP. shake.
“I don’t even know your name,” Julia Cumming sings in the opening lines over a scorching instrumental melody. “But I love you nonetheless.” According to the band, the song is about “a chance encounter with someone special that can change your life forever. It can be both exhilarating and terrifying to fall in love with someone you barely know.”
As with the title track, “Teach Me to Be Bad” is paired with a video. Both “Shake” and “Teach Me to Be Bad” are part of shake, A 14-minute short film produced by the band, it features tracks representing the natural elements of earth, wind, water, fire, and metal. (While “Shake” represents metal, it's safe to assume that “Teach Me to Be Bad” symbolizes fire.)
The band will be performing its first show. shake At the Roxy Cinema in New York on September 25 – participating in a Q&A session with director Isaac Roberts – before a screening of the 1975 Italian classic Deep red.
shakeThe mini-album “EP” will be released on September 27 via Lucky Number. The band detailed the release last month, explaining that it harkens back to the brief metal phase they went through after forming in 2013.
“shake “We were inspired by our early years as a band, the spirit that gave birth to us and gave us the opportunity to take this everlasting journey together,” they said. “We wrote, recorded, engineered and produced these songs so that nothing would be filtered through anyone else’s idea of us. We’ve always felt that rock and roll was a feeling, not a sound. But sometimes, it can’t be undermined or explained. We’re presenting it now exactly as it happened to us.“
Sunflower Bean will play a number of shows this fall, starting with Baby's All Right in Brooklyn on October 2. The band will then move on to Los Angeles (October 9 at Zebulon) and Chicago (October 12 at Empty Bottle), before concluding at the Empire Control Room in Austin, Texas, on November 16.
