Sunflower Bean is coming to The Catalyst Atrium on Saturday, June 16, 2018!
Plus:
The Paranoyds
Sunflower Bean Set to Return with ?Twentytwo in Blue,? a Second Album Made For Today
Blue, as Julia Cumming of Brooklyn?s Sunflower Bean points out, is something of a ?loaded color.? The word is of course often synonymous with sadness-certainly blues music isn?t known for its laughs. But blue is also the United Nations? internationally recognized color of peace; the stripe in the rainbow on the Pride flag that represents serenity; and the ?emotional color? of Sunflower Bean?s upcoming sparkling second album, Twentytwo in Blue. ?We definitely don?t want it to come across as a sad record,? explains Cumming. ?Blue is kind of hopeful, and we wanted to explore that color with this record.? The new LP by vocalist and bassist Cumming, drummer Jacob Faber and guitarist and vocalist Nick Kivlen is many things: rousing, romantic, topical, empathetic and insightful. But defeatist it?s not.
All three band members will in fact be 22 when Twentytwo in Blue is released in March of 2018, almost two years and two months after Sunflower Bean?s hazy, charming debut LP, Human Ceremony. They were two momentous years for the trio, who?ve now toured the world multiple times over on headlining stints and as support for indie rock essentials like DIIV, Best Coast, The Vaccines, Pixies and Wolf Alice. By the month, they only grew in accomplishment, and gained a newly confident voice they bring to the second album, one that doesn?t shy away from addressing the other events of those two years-political changes and cultural shifts that have left America and the world stupefied. ?This has been such an unbelievable time,? says Kivlen. ?I can?t imagine any artist of our ilk making a record and not have it be seen through the lens of the political climate of 2016 and 2017. So I think there?s a few songs on the record that are definitely heavily influenced by this sort of-whatever you want to say what the Trump administration has been.? ?A shit show,? offers a helpful Faber.
The Catalyst Club
1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Phone:(831) 423-1338
www.catalystclub.com
Tickets + Info: https://www.catalystclub.com/event/1675720-sunflower-bean-santa-cruz/
Ages 16+
Doors 8:30pm / Show 9pm
Tickets: $20 / $25