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SUNFLOWER BEAN – ” I Hear Voices “

Posted: August 12, 2015 in MUSIC
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There’s been an huge amount on the music blogs recently about Sunflower Bean . In truth, half the focus has zeroed in on the young trio’s neo-psych, motorik beat blasted pop, and half has been centered around willowy vocalist and bassist Julia Cumming.  You’d be forgiven for being style-over-substance-sceptical, but if you see the Brooklyn-based band live, you’ll for sure change your tune. seamlessly slowing and speeding up to an ear-achingly awesome squall, without so much as a glance or nod exchanged. They’re just feeling it. Here is the video for their latest song, “I Hear Voices” which begins by informing the viewer that the entire video was shot on an iPhone 6. What follows are cloaked figures lurking, mall rats gawping, smoke bombs in fields of green, and plenty of hydration. Meanwhile, the song exemplifies their slow-fast-sweet-angsty-psych-pop. Flanger pedal poised—let’s go! The band had this to say about the the song and video: “This song is a representation of life in the digital age. It is an example of how everything means nothing and nothing means everything. The making of this video was a meditation on life in 2015! We worked with our friend, artist Kyle Hide and we really like the way he interpreted the song and wanted to collaborate with him on the project.” Hide continued: “The song made me think about phones and the role that telecommunications play to make voices touch each other over long distances. I also thought about the paranoia of always being watched and the fear of government surveillance. The video is inspired by YouTube culture and home video making culture in general. I’ve always made home videos and music videos. My parents were able to afford a video camera in the 90s when they started to become more affordable to the working class.”

SUNFLOWER BEAN – ” I Hear Voices “

Posted: July 28, 2015 in MUSIC
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Debut 7″ vinyl single from Sunflower Bean, due out 24th July 2015.

Pre-order the limited edition 7″ on Fat Possum Records,

We’ve already posted “Stalker”, the flip side to “I Hear Voices” by Brooklyn’s neo-psych rockers Sunflower Bean.

Now here is the A side in all its hazy, spring-heeled glory that is making good on all the hype the band are generating.

SUNFLOWER BEAN – ” Tame Impala “

Posted: May 18, 2015 in MUSIC
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Video premiere: Sunflower Bean “Tame Impala” They’re currently finishing up recording their debut album, which should be released sometime this summer. They’re currently unsigned but are probably being courted by every label imaginable. Cult Records is a New York label looking to build its roster and Julian seems to be a fan. Let’s see what happens. Either way, we’re sure that debut album is going to be a stunner. catch them now before the bigger venues beckon.

 

SUNFLOWER BEAN – ” Tarot Card ” Live at baby’s All Right

Posted: May 16, 2015 in MUSIC
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Sunflower Bean is a band consisting of three people barely scratching the age of 20, but their grasp of neo-psych rock influences and their tightness as a unit belies their age. This is a band that looks, acts, and performs as if they were a veteran unit in their thirties. Perhaps this is because Sunflower Bean is also relentless in playing live — , they are statistically the hardest working band in NYC in 2014 having played the highest number of live gigs. We caught one of those gigs back in November when they opened for Dream Syndicate and really knocked it out of the park in a pretty sizeable venue and a notable gig. Fortunately, it wasn’t too long before they showed up on this excellent bill at Baby’s All Right, opening for Fat White Family and PC Worship . I decided it was a good idea to check them out from up close at the stage lip and see if my first instincts were correct — and yes, they were. Julia Cumming and Nick Kliven share the vocals and each delivers a different but effective edge to the material. Kliven’s tasty multi-pedaled guitar work is supplemented with Cumming’s powerful bass and anchored by Jacob Farber’s meticulous percussion. Sunflower Bean is just a damned good band and there’s really no telling how far they can go. They will release their debut EP “Show Me Your Seven Secrets” in January and the EP release show will be at Baby’s All Right 

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20/12/2014 at the venue Babys All Right Brooklyn, NY USA

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Setlist:
[Total Time 31:20]
01 [new song]
02 Tame Impala
03 I’m A Ghost
04 Call The Doctor
05 Wall Watcher
06 Rock and Roll Heathen
07 Tarot Card

SUNFLOWER BEAN – ” BTR Live Studio “

Posted: May 16, 2015 in MUSIC
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Sunflower Bean – BTR Live Studio [ep365] from BTR Live Studio. Like this? Watch the latest episode of BTR Live Studio on Blip!

Rock & roll was never dead, it has just been waiting to re-emerge. In their first year, Sunflower Bean has made waves as they relight the torch and bring rock into the future. Sunflower Bean live and yet again they managed to impress and improve upon all the previous performances. The trio of Julia Cumming, Nick Kivlen and Jacob Faber, just know how to lock into a groove and run away with it completely for 45-minutes straight. Although they’re still young enough to sport those pesky black x’s on their hands and are forced to stick to red bulls while on stage, the band run through their songs with the intricacy and confidence of a band well into their years. One minute they’re hammering away at sludgy Black Sabbatch riffage and then they’re weaving into stop-start psych-freak out jams. They may be young, but Sunflower Bean are a fully realized band that know what they’re doing, and their live show just keeps getting better and better. You’ll be pressed to find a harder worker band at the moment than Sunflower Bean, which is why they’re one of the best live bands you can see in New York at the moment.

SUNFLOWER BEAN – ” Tame Impala “

Posted: May 16, 2015 in MUSIC
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“New York is still home to bands as varied as Sunflower Bean, whose music suggests what might have happened if psychedelia had emerged after punk and the Police rather than before” – Jon Pareles of The New York Times

In their first year, Sunflower Bean has made waves coast to coast. Julia Cumming (vox/bass), Nick Kivlen (vox/guitar), and Jacob Faber (drums), draw from a wealth of rugged lo-fi sounds, adapting the heroic charisma of VU psychedelia and Black Sabbath’s dark rock to fit their own generation’s drowsy ethos.

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SUNFLOWER BEAN – ” 2013 “

Posted: January 31, 2015 in MUSIC
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Music video by Sunflower Bean performing “2013”,For Sunflower Bean, three New York City teenagers who released their debut EP “Show Me Your Seven Secrets” this week, they’ve played their hazy, psychedelic garage rock in over 50 shows in the city this past year. And they’ve already caught the attention of the New York Times, NPR and Interview Magazine. In a Brooklyn sea of dream-pop and indie-rock, Sunflower Bean wants to bring back some good, old-fashioned rock-‘n’-roll. The trio—comprised of Julia Cumming (also a runway model), Nick Kivlen, and Jacob Farber—have taken it upon themselves to make up their own version of rock-‘n’-roll for the digital age. Drawing from lo-fi sounds and dark rock and psychedelic undertones, Sunflower Bean’s music is not as delicate as the band’s name might lead you to believe: it’s sultry and hypnotic.

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SUNFLOWER BEAN – ” Show Me Your Seven Secrets ” EP

Posted: January 27, 2015 in MUSIC
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Sunflower Bean Debut EP now available on CD titled “Show Me Your Seven Secrets” New York is still home to bands as varied as Sunflower Bean, whose music suggests what might have happened if psychedelia had emerged after punk and the Police rather than before. In their first year, Sunflower Bean has made waves coast to coast. Julia Cumming (vox/bass), Nick Kivlen (vox/guitar), and Jacob Faber (drums), draw from a wealth of rugged lo-fi sounds, adapting the heroic charisma of VU psychedelia and Black Sabbath’s dark rock to fit their own generation’s drowsy ethos.

Track Listing:
1. Somebody Call A Doctor
2. 2013
3. Tame Impala
4. Rock & Roll Heathen
5. Ok Mr. Man
6. Bread

SUNFLOWER BEAN – ” Wall Watcher ” Breakthru Radio Studio Session “

Posted: November 11, 2014 in MUSIC
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Sunflower Bean is a New York-based trio of young psychedelic rockers. Comprised of Julia Cumming (vox/bass), Nick Kivlen (vox/guitar), and Jacob Faber (drums), they are quickly making a name for themselves as a band to watch — especially at this year’s CMJ Music Marathon. Riffy, groovy, and heavy, they’ve got the right blend of lo-fi Sabbath vibes to keep the party going.

Featured song: “Wall Watcher”

SUNFLOWER BEAN – ” Tame Impala “

Posted: November 5, 2014 in MUSIC
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In a Brooklyn sea of dream-pop and indie-rock, Sunflower Bean wants to bring back some good, old-fashioned rock-‘n’-roll. The trio—comprised of Julia Cumming, Nick Kivlen, and Jacob Farber—have taken it upon themselves to make up their own version of rock-‘n’-roll for the digital age. Drawing from lo-fi sounds and dark rock and psychedelic undertones, Sunflower Bean’s music is not as delicate as the band’s name might lead you to believe: it’s sultry and hypnotic.

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Sunflower Bean’s EP Rock & Roll Heathen will make its debut this autumn, but in the meantime, the band has been touring New York and currently the West Coast. We’re excited to premiere “Tame Impala,” an invigorating rock track from Sunflower Bean’s upcoming EP that serves as an ode to the band Tame Impala, which Sunflower Bean sees as a modern-day Led Zeppelin (fittingly, Tame Impala itself has a song named “Led Zeppelin”).

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