Sunday,June: new album «Cinema» out tomorrow, followed by an extensive UK/EU tour!

Swiss quintet Sunday,June present «Cinema», their second album, recorded at the legendary Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire, England. Produced by Andy Savours (My Bloody Valentine, Arctic Monkeys, The Killers), «Cinema» is a luminous record with deep emotional layers, traversing psychedelic rock, dream pop, and indie rock. An album steeped in nostalgia, self-discovery, the redemptive power of beauty, and the profound joy of playing together.

«Cinema» moves in the space where memory and desire blur into one. Drawing its central metaphor from the moving image, the album frames love (nostalgic, imagined, never quite realized) as a succession of interior scenes, each a fragment of an unfinished film.

The five members co-wrote the record together in 2025, drawing on melodic ideas brought primarily by singer and guitarist Mario Peiró, and the collective process is audible in every arrangement: the music breathes as an ensemble, alive in its own imperfections. Sunday,June’s collective vision is however not there to smooth out individual voices – quite the opposite, it elevates them. What one hears on the album is five people who trust each other completely, giving one another the space to express themselves.

Sonically, «Cinema» extends the deeply psychedelic palette of the band’s debut, «Sun Glitter and Other Reflections» (2025), into airier and more... cinematic territory: shimmering guitar textures, spacious keyboards, and organic-sounding drums that evoke dream-pop and shoegaze touchstones from Slowdive to Beach House, alongside more psychedelic influences.

On the title track, Sunday,June distils the emotional essence of the album into four minutes of bittersweet indie rock. Over interlocking guitars and a delicately undulating keyboard line, Mario sings of a love already drifting away: «Even if she tried / She’ll never come back again / So promise me / That this time she will make it.» «Come Back», another standout track, extends that same melancholy, its gradual build and layered choruses echoing the inward search that runs through the entire record. Elsewhere, «Cinema» explores nature as an emotional landscape: the sea, the sun, and the countryside appear as refuges and spaces of renewal.

Recorded live at Chapel Studios (UK) without a click track, preserving the natural breath and small imperfections of a live performance, «Cinema» captures an energy that studio overdubs rarely achieve. Andy Savours (My Bloody Valentine, Arctic Monkeys, The Killers) encouraged the band to build from live takes, and the results felt immediately more alive; the band maintained that approach throughout the sessions. Moments of experimentation followed: piano strings struck by hand to play with texture, amplifiers placed in different rooms (then re-amplified in the chapel), and a collective vocal session (all five members gathered around a single microphone), lending the harmonies their warm, communal quality.