Psych, punk and arguing in the car: Why Sunflower Bean aced it at The Great Escape. Interview by Matt Wilkinson In the recent past, The Great Escape has been the festival that’s put Warpaint, Parquet ...
One evening back in May, Sunflower Bean found themselves in the woods of upstate New York, caked in 200 pounds of clay. They were shooting Shake, a short film to accompany their EP of the same name, ...
The New York trio wave goodbye to the UK after arena-hopping in support of Wolf Alice, tying a neat bow on their British ...
More successfully than most, Sunflower Bean has always resisted being effectively pigeonholed. From their earliest days, phrases attempting to define their sound in just one or two words ...
Brooklyn’s Sunflower Bean, featuring Saint Laurent muse Julia Cumming along with Jacob Faber and Nick Kivlen, dropped their new album, Human Ceremony, to raves. Now they’re headed to SXSW as one of ...
When listening to "Human Ceremony," Sunflower Bean’s debut album, you’re hit with a wave of jagged call-and-response vocals. A high female voice cuts through the steady drone of her male counterpart — ...
Sunflower Bean is the new New York It band. The group started off in Long Island, NY, where Nick Kivlen (vox/guitar), and Jacob Faber (drums) are originally from. Julia Cumming, though from Manhattan, ...
The alternative rock trio, based in New York, tell EDWIN GILSON about their upcoming second album and why it’s a “scary” time for their home country IT WAS autumn 2016 and Sunflower Bean were ...
Growing up on Long Island, Nick Kivlen and Jacob Faber barely knew any other kids at their high school who listened to rock & roll. “You don’t know that rock music exists in this age unless someone ...