Sunflower Bean Return to Their DIY Roots on Heavy Metal ‘Shake’

Sunflower Bean Return to Their DIY Roots on Heavy Metal ‘Shake’


Sunflower Bean return with the raucous rock song “Shake,” the lead single from their upcoming EP of the same name.

The track starts with a scorching song. Master of reality– A guitar-driven musical clip, paired with a video of the New York trio covered in mud. Directed by Isaac Roberts, the clip is part of a 14-minute video the band made for shakeEach music video will feature natural elements such as earth, wind, fire and metal. The video for “Shake,” shown below, represents the earth.

shaketheir first EP since 2019. Men'sThe album will be released on September 27 via Lucky Number. It was produced by the band – singer and guitarist Julia Cumming, bassist and vocalist Nick Kivlin, and drummer Olive Faber – themselves.

shake “This album was inspired by our early years as a DIY band, the spirit that gave birth to us and gave us the opportunity to take this lifelong journey together,” the band said in a statement. “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.”

The band will be enhanced. shake On a short tour this fall, it starts at Baby's All Right in Brooklyn on October 2 and ends at Empire Control Room in Austin, Texas on November 16.

Sunflower Bean has previously discussed the brief metal phase that followed their formation about a decade ago. “Metal is still fun,” Cumming said. RS About the band’s 2016 debut, which took them closer to dreamy, psychedelic indie rock. “But we’ve had our whole lives to be a doom metal band.” Now that time has come. They previewed several songs on the new EP at their raucous SXSW 2023 shows.

shake The band's 2022 album follows. head of sugar“The only thing that matters is: Are you happy with the people around you? Are you safe? Are you healthy? Do you have love?” Cumming said. rolling stone“There have been sacrifices, there has been sadness, there has been pain. But making music is worth fighting for.”

Common

shake Playlist
1. man
2. Lucky number
3. He taught me to be bad.
4. Serial Killer
5. Angelica

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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