Sunflower Bean Premiere “Wall Watcher” Video Via Noisey
Sunflower Bean will release their brilliant debut album Human Ceremony early next year, and today they unveil their music video for the first single, “Wall Watcher.” The driving track was released last month and now it receives an equally striking visual from Roger Sargent about the daunting passing of time as expressed in the single (Where did the time go?/Gets faster as we go/I feel it all around.) Shot in an old buckle factory in London, the video for “Wall Watcher” is premiering via Noisey now. CLICK HERE to watch.
Sunflower Bean – who are known internationally for their exhilarating live shows – return in February for their first European headline tour. The band, who recently supported The Vaccines on their UK tour, will play the following shows:
- 2/2/16 Bristol, UK @ Louisiana
- 2/3/16 Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds
- 2/6/16 Paris, FR @ Le Pop Up Du Label
- 2/8/16 Copenhagen, DK @ Ideal Bar
- 2/9/16 Berlin, GR @ Berghain Kantine
- 2/10/16 Hamburg, GR @ Molotov Bar
- 2/12/16 Brussels, BE @ Botanique
- 2/13/16 Lille, GR @ LA Peniche
- 2/15/16 Edinburgh, UK @ Sneaky Pete’s
- 2/16/16 Manchester, UK @ Soup Kitchen
- 2/18/16 London, UK @ The Dome
- 2/19/16 Brighton, UK @ Bleach
Human Ceremony will be released on February 5th via Fat Possum. Drawing inspiration from a vast pool of influences such as Black Sabbath and The Cure, Sunflower Bean have crafted an album that is a potent, heady mix of swirling indie pop, urgent, fuzzed-out guitar bliss, and girl/boy sugar-spun vocal melodies that delivers a modern-day spin on classic rock & roll. Having gotten their start in the DIY New York scene, Sunflower Bean quickly accelerated into one of the foremost up-and-coming bands nationally and overseas over the last few months. Following the release of their singular EP earlier this year, and a 7-inch vinyl this Summer, Sunflower Bean played over 100 shows in one year between the U.S. and Europe, opening for the likes of DIIV, Best Coast, and Wolf Alice, and delivering show-stopping sets at CMJ, SXSW and the Great Escape festival. Now, Sunflower Bean are set to deliver one of the best debuts you will hear in 2016.
PRESS HERE to pre-order Human Ceremony on CD or vinyl, and HERE on iTunes.
- "The music is both restrained and aggressive...but like a lot of great rock'n'roll, it’s also catchy, compelling, and concise." – Pitchfork
- “Another killer track...one of the band’s best songs to date.” – The FADER
- “It sounds massive – and it’s proof that it’s time to start taking Sunflower Bean seriously.” – NME
