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On November 12, 2015, they premiered the single "Wall Watcher" on The Fader, announcing also the cover art, release date and track list of their first album, Human Ceremony.
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It's like if Black Sabbath mixed with The Smiths, maybe?" The band - then as now - toured relentlessly, gaining themselves the title of New York City's "hardest-working band" in 2014 ) they still tour extensively today, both as headliners and as openers for bands like Pixies, Wolf Alice, DIIV, Foxygen, Best Coast, Cherry Glazerr and Sleigh Bells.Īfter a successful series of performances at South by Southwest 2015, the band was signed to Fat Possum Records, and an inaugural 7" single ("I Hear Voices" b/w "The Stalker") was released on July 24. ) Cumming provided a good description of the band's sound at the time to i-D: "We used to call it 'neo-psychedelia for the digital age', and now we've just been calling it 'night music', however someone may take that. (The band, fans of Tame Impala, had named a song after the Australian combo, noting that Tame Impala itself had named a song "Led Zeppelin". The EP, which features the singles "Tame Impala" and "2013", was called "astonishingly good" by the NME. The band's appearance at the 2014 CMJ Music Marathon received good notices from All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen and from The New York Times's Jon Pareles, who wrote "New York is still home to bands as varied as Sunflower Bean, whose music suggests what might have happened if psychedelia had emerged after punk and the Police rather than before." They released their first EP, ‘’Show Me Your Seven Secrets’’, initially through their Bandcamp page on January 5, 2015., and later via Fat Possum Records. In the following year, the band moved from Long Island to Bushwick, Brooklyn, becoming active in the borough's thriving " DIY" scene, even as they felt ambivalent about much of the scene's aesthetic. The Manhattan-based Cumming, who had been performing in the band Supercute! along with Rachel Trachtenburg since 2009, met Faber and Kivlen at an early Sunflower Bean show she agreed to join the band as bassist in August 2013, as Supercute! was dissolving. The name of their new band apparently came about due to Kivlen's obsession with sunflower seeds alongside Faber's concurrent love of coffee and coffee beans. By early 2013, the two began to create their own original music, practising and writing in Faber's basement. They initially collaborated when Olive briefly subbed for the drummer in Turnip King, the band for which Nick was the bassist. Kivlen and Faber were childhood acquaintances who both enrolled at North Shore High School in Glen Head, New York in 2009. Julia Cumming, Olive Faber and Nick Kivlen rehearsing, October 2013