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Sunflower Bean will release their transformative new album Mortal Primetime this Friday, April 25th. They have already shared early singles “Champagne Taste” and “Nothing Romantic,” and today they share one final preview that shows another side of the record. A powerful and searing track about personal experiences with being groomed, “There’s a Part I Can’t Get Back” finds Julia Cumming “as intentional and direct as possible,” as she grapples with what she encountered. Central to the themes of the record, the video for “There’s a Part I Can’t Get Back” finds all three members of Sunflower Bean supporting one another as they fight to regain their footing. Listen to the song and watch the moving video from Harv Frost now below.

Cumming explains of the track: “This song is about the lasting scars of grooming—the parts of yourself that are stolen and the anger you carry because of it. It came to me in such a raw and direct way, there was no second-guessing or wondering how I felt. I didn’t want to write a song about being healed, I wanted to be angry about needing to heal at all. The line, ‘If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord lets me get even first,’ is important because it captures the intensity of these feelings and how they go beyond logic. I am confronting the pain and the questions that will never be answered.”

Sunflower Bean are known for their blistering live show, and will return to the UK next week 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. All live dates and ticket links are available on the band’s website.

Today, alt-pop provocateur Jessica Winter has announced her debut record, My First Album, set for release on Friday 11th July and available to pre-order now. Also shared today is Jessica’s second single from the album, “All I Ever Really Wanted”, which follows the monumentally successful first single, “L.O.V.E.”, that was released in February. The lyric video for “All I Ever Really Wanted”, directed by Ella Margolin, is available to watch below. Jessica has also announced a run of in-store live dates to follow the album’s release, details below.

On “All I Ever Really Wanted”, Jessica creates yet another alt-pop anthem, channeling pop aesthetics from across the decades. At the core of the track are addictive pop beats, audacious hooks, and glitter, flamboyance, and rawness in equal measure. Relentlessly inventive, with her new single Jessica does what she has done for her whole career and takes a multitude of influences and stamps her unique, unmistakable ‘Jessica Winter’ sound across them.

Speaking about her debut album, Jessica said:

“My First Album is conceptually about ‘somebody’ aspiring to be a star and wanting to fill the void deep inside herself. Along the way there are various diversions and adventures, involving people, places, and things. Ultimately, however, she is on a journey of self-discovery and realisation, and that all she really needs is to love herself.”

Speaking about her new single, “All I Ever Wanted”, Jessica said:

“When fantastical expectations are set so high, reality will always feel like a disappointment. As an artist, fantasising is part of the process, but it can have a negative impact when you’re forever fantasising and lose appreciation for the real stuff. It’s a sound of life imploding whilst in delusional euphoria.”

In July, Jessica Winter will play multiple in-store live dates to celebrate the release of My First Album, playing cities including London, Brighton, Bristol, Leeds, and Liverpool. All dates and ticket links can be found on her website.

Ahead of this Friday’s release of their highly anticipated new album Welcome to My Blue Sky, Momma have shared their new single “Rodeo” alongside a Richard Phillip Smith-directed video.

The track channels frustration and longing—a tension perfectly echoed in its pummeling riffs, staccato drum beats, and indelibly sweet vocal delivery. “This song is written from the perspective of two people we kind of left behind, romantically. It’s our attempt at honoring their stories by tapping into the feeling of being replaced by someone else. We made the video with Richard Smith, who had the idea to put us on an ice rink and have someone skating around us, with a bull chasing her. It’s supposed to replicate the idea of being in the center of the ring of a rodeo, and feeling like someone is doing laps around you and you just can’t keep up,” songwriters/vocalists/guitarists Allegra Weingarten and Etta Friedman explain.

Last week, Momma – recently named artists to watch by The New York Times – made their late night television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! with an electrifying performance of “I Want You (Fever)”, a song that is rising up the US Alternative & AAA radio, which you can watch here.

Momma will embark on a headlining US tour later this month, with three already sold-out shows at their biggest venues to date. The band are set to perform in the EU and UK later this year with shows at Primavera Sound (Barcelona and Porto) and Outbreak Festival (London and Manchester) in June, and more dates to follow this Autumn. Tickets for all tour dates are available from their website.

Sunflower Bean today share their new single today entitled “Nothing Romantic”, a soaring second preview of their transformative new album Mortal Primetime, out April 25th.

While the album’s first single “Champagne Taste” found Julia Cumming channelling 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.”

Listen to the new single & watch its incredible Sophia Feuer & Tyler Macri directed music video below:

Today, Los Angeles based band Kills Birds release new single “Trace”, the third to be revealed from their forthcoming EP Crave out April 11th. The five track EP also features “Madison” and ferocious 2024 single “Behind”. The band have created a Pixies-inspired visualiser for “Trace” as a tribute to dogs, while the release is accompanied by the announcement of a new headline show at LA’s The Echo on May 24th. Tickets available now.

Speaking on the new single, the band explains; “Trace is about falling in love—the infinite momentum and exhilaration that come with the early stages of a new connection. And while relationships inevitably evolve, fade, or even unravel, for us the song represents the rapture and joy inherent in both love discovered and love remembered.”