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Jul 24, 2024 By Marina Malin Photography by Yulissa Benitez

New York trio Sunflower Bean have announced their first self-produced and recorded EP, Shake. They have also shared their lead track—which is also the title track—“Shake.” The EP will be released on September 27 via Lucky number. Find the tracklist and cover art for Shake below, alongside Sunflower Bean’s tour dates.

In collaboration with rising director Issac Roberts, Sunflower Bean will release a 14-minute performance based video for each track that interprets a natural element such as earth, wind, water, fire, and metal. Today’s title track and lead single “Shake” is an interpretation of earth. Watch the video below.

Sunflower Bean is vocalist and bassist Julia Cumming (she/her), guitarist and vocalist Nick Kivlen (he/him), and drummer Olive Faber (she/they).

Featuring Sunflower Bean’s most unapologetically grunge music yet, the band had this to say of their EP in a press release: “Shake was inspired by our first years as a DIY band, the spirit that birthed us and gave us the chance to have this enduring journey together. We wrote, recorded, engineered, and produced these songs so nothing was filtered through anyone else’s idea of us. We always felt like rock and roll was a feeling, not a sound. But sometimes there is no subverting it or explaining it. We’re now offering it exactly as it occurred to us.”

Read our rave review of their 2022 album, Headful of Sugar.

Shake Tracklist:

1. Shake

2. Lucky Number

3. Teach Me to Be Bad

4. Serial Killer

5. Angelica

Sunflower Bean Tour Dates:

October 2 – Brooklyn, NY – Baby’s All Right

October 9 – Los Angeles, CA - Zebulon

October 12 – Chicago, IL – The Empty Bottle

November 16 – Austin, TX – Empire Control Room

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