New York band Sunflower have announced a new album called Mortal Primetime, which arrives April 25 via Lucky Number. The driving, meaty lead single ‘Champagne Taste’ is out today, alongside a music video directed by Isaac Roberts. Check it out below.
Mortal Primetime marks the band’s fourth but first self-produced record. It was mixed by Caesar Edmunds (The Killers, Wet Leg), wth engineering by Illuminati Hotties’ Sarah Tudzin. “You get to decide what your prime is, and you fight for it,” bassist and vocalist Julia Cumming shared in a press release. “This is ours, and that can’t be taken away by circumstance. We can’t take it away from each other. This moment, where we are now, is what we’ve always fought for.”
Guitarist/vocalist Nick Kivlen added: “It’s such a rare and special thing for a band to have played together this long, so we wanted to lean into the skills we’ve built and take an old-school approach to the recording—which is maybe the most subversive thing we could do at a time when it’s so easy to copy and paste.”
Offering a hint of what the album sounds like, Cumming said: “Sometimes I think of this record as Belle and Sebastian meets Alice in Chains.” She went on, “The further you move through life, the more you realize how precious every moment is. This album is about choosing the present as our prime, but also being in touch with the transient and fleeting nature of this existence.”
Mortal Primetime Cover Artwork:
Mortal Primetime Tracklist:
1. Champagne Taste
2. Nothing Romantic
3. Waiting For The Rain
4. Look What You’ve Done To Me
5. I Knew Love
6. Take Out Your Insides
7. There’s A Part I Can’t Get Back
8. Please Rewind
9. Shooting Star
10. Sunshine
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Feb 14 – Manchester, UK – O2 Apollo ^
Feb 16 – Wolverhampton, UK – Uni of Wolverhampton at The Civic Hall ^
Feb 17 – London, UK – O2 Academy Brixton ^
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Feb 20 – Cologne, DE – Palladium ^
Feb 21 – Berlin, DE – Columbiahalle ^
Feb 23 – Amsterdam, NL – AFAS Live ^
Feb 24 – Brussels, BE – Ancienne Belgique ^
Feb 26 – Paris, FR – Zenith ^
Feb 27 – London, UK – George Tavern
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May 15 – Troy, NY – No Fun
May 16 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brendas *
May 17 – Boston, MA – Deep Cuts *
May 22 – Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw #
May 23 – Washington, DC – The Atlantis #
May 24 – Raleigh, NC – Kings #
May 25 – Asheville, NC – Eulogy #
May 27 – Nashville, TN – Third Man Records #
May 28 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl #
May 30 – Denton, TX – Rubber Gloves #
May 31 – Austin, TX – The Ballroom #
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Jun 05 – San Diego, CA – The Casbah #
Jun 06 – Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room #
Jun 07 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel #
Jun 09 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios #
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