Sun Room the Californian band – whose line-up now consists of vocalist Luke Asgian, guitarist Ashton Minnich, and bassist Max Pinamonti – played to a crowd of 500 avid Inhaler fans, offering sun-drenched surf-rock ragers like “Sol Del Sur” and “Something That You’re Missing,” and performing as if the West Hollywood venue was their own backyard.
It was a tour that would see the band open for the Irish rockers around the country and earn the approval of a large portion of their fanbase in the process. Steadily, the band gained traction – having cut their teeth in the Southern California house show circuit, the natural next step was scaling that live energy to match the countrywide phenomenon they’d become. “It felt good to us at that time, but if we watched ourselves playing four years ago, we would be like, ‘Wow, you guys suck,” Pinamonti says . “Four years later, we’re definitely very comfortable with each other. And I feel like as long as you feel comfortable, it’ll just get better and better.”
“Ritual of Chaos“, their brand-new EP, finds Sun Room at an age-old point in their career. Having exhausted their naivety as a new band and entered the ranks as a trusted one, the three-piece turn to a topic they now know like the back of their hand: Change. It’s a title that came naturally: “It was the most representative of what most of the songs are about, which is just being in the stage of life we’re in. Being in your twenties and having chaotic experiences with relationships and whatever it is,” Pinamonti says. “I feel like it presented itself to us, rather than us thinking for weeks about it.”
The music video for standout track “On Fire,” which flaunts the EP’s eponymous line: “Ritual of chaos every single night through the city / Just to see those eyes.” Pinamonti shares that the first thing he heard about the music video was that there would be fire, and I joke that could go quite a few different ways. “Exactly,” he laughs. “I remember we had the initial riff idea for a really long time, and then we made a little demo of it. Maybe six months later, one of us found it on our phone, and then we just worked on it, and it just clicked. It got lost for a while, and then we found it again, gave it new life.”
Despite these changes, one thing remains steadfast: Sun Room will always be a band on the move. They’re preparing for supporting slots with Flipturn and a headlining tour soon thereafter, which will bring them back to old stomping grounds and introduce them to new ones. “We’re playing in Montana for the first time, and playing in Pomona. It’s pretty close to where we are, but we’ve never played there,” Pinamonti says, “and then we’re hitting a lot of similar cities that we have before on our fall headline tour, which is a good thing because hopefully the same people will come back.”
the Californian band’s brand new EP, ‘Ritual of Chaos,’
The Fat Angel Sings 