Even voorstellen – Sunflower Bean – album ‘mortal primetime’, single ‘nothing romantic’
SUNFLOWER BEAN SHARE NEW SINGLE “NOTHING ROMANTIC”
Sunflower Bean - Nothing Romantic
Sunflower Bean - Champagne Taste
MORTAL PRIMETIME OUT APRIL 25
Sunflower Bean – Julia Cumming (vocals, bass), Nick Kivlen (vocals, guitar) and Olive Faber (drums) – share a new single today entitled “Nothing Romantic,” a soaring second preview of their transformative new album Mortal Primetime, out April 25th on Lucky Number.
While the album’s first single “Champagne Taste” found Cumming channeling Iggy Pop, “Nothing Romantic” features power cords that harken back to arena-ready hits of the ‘70s and ‘80s by Heart, Pat Benatar, or Joan Jett, with piano from Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (co-founder of legendary power-pop band Jellyfish).
"'Nothing Romantic' is about rejecting the myth of the tortured artist—realizing that the joys of creativity don’t have to come from the lows of misery," the band explains. "The video mirrors this journey, capturing our lives as touring musicians in between nightmarish performances. From green rooms to lost highways, we travel from town to town, feeling alive only in the escape of our show. There’s tension between the connection and solitude; on stage, we're together, sharing our music with others but later isolation and the price of our sacrifices creep in."
Sunflower Bean are known for their blistering live show and, following a series of showcases at SXSW this week, they will return to the UK this April to celebrate the release of their album with in-stores for Resident in Brighton, Rough Trade and Banquet in London, and dates in Liverpool and Leeds. This Spring, their US headline tour in support of Mortal Primetime begins, including a hometown show at Warsaw in Brooklyn. The band has graced the stages of countless festivals like Glastonbury and Lollapalooza, to tours with Beck, Interpol, and The Pixies, and sold-out international headline shows. They just wrapped up a massive European/UK tour with Cage the Elephant, so their shows are not to be missed.
Sunflower Bean return reinvigorated with the most hard-fought and vulnerable album of their career: Mortal Primetime. In the three years since their last LP Headful of Sugar, the members of Sunflower Bean drifted from one another as they pursued new projects and confronted personal challenges, tragedies and transformations. But Mortal Primetime – the band’s fourth album, but first self-produced – finds Sunflower Bean with a renewed sense of purpose after nearly losing everything they built together. “You get to decide what your prime is, and you fight for it,” bassist and vocalist Julia Cumming says. “This is ours, and that can’t be taken away by circumstance. We can’t take it away from each other. This moment, where we are now, is what we’ve always fought for.” With mixing by Caesar Edmunds (The Killers, Wet Leg) and engineering by Sarah Tudzin (Illuminati Hotties, Boygenius), Sunflower Bean were inspired by alternative rock, dreamy psychedelia, and arena-sized ambition to create a sound that’s undeniably theirs on Mortal Primetime; a record that celebrates their history while hurtling toward the future.
Track Listing
- Champagne Taste
- Nothing Romantic
- Waiting For The Rain
- Look What You’ve Done To Me
- I Knew Love
- Take Out Your Insides
- There’s A Part I Can’t Get Back
- Please Rewind
- Shooting Star
- Sunshine