Sunflower Bean with new single 'Easier Said' premiering today!

Sunflower Bean will release their utterly brilliant debut album Human Ceremony next month, and today they share the album’s gorgeous second single and lead track entitled “Easier Said.” On this song, Nick Kivlen’s lilting, clean guitar is met with Julia Cumming’s delicate, gliding vocals, which spiral off into a vibrant hum as she sings simple yet hard-hitting truths like, “Should have just stayed home when I’d rather/Be aloneinstead” and “You're getting old/So act your age/It isn't fun /To make the same mistakes.” The result is a subtly beautiful single that will prove difficult to forget. PRESS HERE to listen via Stereogum now.

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 in the UK, 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, DE @ BerghainKantine
• 2/10/16 Hamburg, DE @ Molotov Bar
• 2/12/16 Brussels, BE @ Botanique
• 2/13/16 Lille, FR @ 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 year. Following the release of their singular EP in early 2015, and a 7-inch vinyl last Summer, Sunflower Bean played over 100 shows in 2015between 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.

Early praise for Sunflower Bean Human Ceremony:

• "The music is both restrained and aggressive...but like a lot of great rock'n'roll, it’s also catchy, compelling, and concise." -Pitchfork
• “...moody psychedelic magic with exactly the right attitude, the young NY trio are one of the most exciting things in music right now.” - i-D Magazine
• “This might be the best song Sunflower Bean have ever penned—those guttural guitars buzzy like early Stone Temple Pilots, the heady harmonies of the chorus reminiscent of Elastica, and that beat destined to inspire a shimmy and a shake...” -Noisey
• “Another killer track...one of the band’s best songs to date.” - The FADER