Our New York trio Sunflower Bean, vocalist and bassist Julia Cumming (she/her), guitarist and vocalist Nick Kivlen (he/him), and drummer Olive Faber (she/her), have released their first fully self-produced and recorded project, SHAKE, today. The EP features some of Sunflower Bean’s heaviest, most immediate and loudest music to date. Influenced by the doom-laden, heavy metal sound of the likes of Black Sabbath, the EP is an embrace of rock tropes and excess, and recalls the sound of the band’s earlier projects, Show Me Your Seven Secrets and Human Ceremony.
Out alongside the release of the EP, is a 14-minute performance based video to showcase each track via an interpretation of the natural elements: earth, wind, water, fire, and metal. The short film debuted at a special event at NYC’s Roxy Cinema earlier this week, which featured a Q&A with the band and the film’s director Isaac Roberts, as well as a viewing of the cult 1975 Dario Argento film, Deep Red. Watch the SHAKE short film in its entirety above now, and read more about it via Rolling Stone.
