Julia Cumming and Nick Kivlen (Sunflower Bean)

Bio

Sunflower Bean is a rock band trio formed in late 2013 with singer/guitarist Nick Kivlen, singer/bassist Julia Cumming, and drummer Olive Faber. In the three years since their last LP, Headful of Sugar, the members of Sunflower Bean drifted from one another as they pursued new projects and confronted personal challenges, tragedies, and transformations. But Mortal Primetime—the band’s fourth album, and their first self-produced—finds Sunflower Bean with a renewed sense of purpose after nearly losing everything they built together. With mixing by Caesar Edmunds (The Killers, Wet Leg) and engineering by Sarah Tudzin (Illuminati Hotties, Boygenius), Sunflower Bean were inspired by alternative rock, dreamy psychedelia, and arena-sized ambition to create a sound that’s undeniably theirs.