Photos by Nina Westervelt We met up with Sunflower Bean in Brooklyn on a gray Wednesday. The band piled out of an SUV with their manager, Crista Simiriglia, looking like they all got dressed out of the same closet. About a year ago, when the group lived together in a neighborhood not far from here, that was probably true. Since the release of last year's EP, Show Me Your Seven Secrets, the psych trio has moved out of the apartment they once shared and spread to different corners of the city. Singer and bassist Julia Cumming now rents the Manhattan apartment she grew up in, and drummer Jacob Faber lives in Long Island, where the band makes the trek once a week for practice. A few short weeks ago Julia turned 20, catching up with Jacob and Nick Kivlen, the band's guitarist. “I was kind of nervous to start playing with these guys,” admits the same girl whose other job it is to walk fashion runways for Yves Saint Laurent. “[But] I had seen them play as Sunflower Bean one time before I joined with a different bass player and I was like, ‘Oh my god. Put me in there!’” She met the guys when her old band, Supercute!, played a show with an old group of theirs. Nick and Jacob have been playing music together since they were in high school. “I knew that it was the thing that I was going to be doing,” Julia tells us about making music, but when Nick first asked her to join Sunflower Bean, she hesitated. “Even when you join something lightly, there’s always a risk that it will become your whole life,” she explains, “and it did.” After playing CMJ in 2014, the band gained a booking agent, publicist, and the attention of Fat Possum, the label that's putting out the group's full-length release, Human Ceremony, today. Nick and Jacob—who first bonded musically over the same patchwork rock tastes—were still in college, and Julia was still in high school. That moment, they all agreed, was the one when they realized this band would be bigger than the ones that came before it. Nick recalls that it was the first time they realized they were getting any attention outside of the 100 plus DIY shows they'd played in New York and its surrounding cities up to that point. Human Ceremony will be their chance to prove what it is they've already proved to themselves: that they're more than just a buzzed about CMJ act, that they have more to offer than a six-song EP, that their lives revolve around this project. And it does. “There are some times if, when we go and see a band and it’s a heavy hard rock band we have a great time. And if we see Tonstartssbandht, the next day when we’re in the practice space jamming on heavy, hard rock riffs,” Jacob says about the band's influences that leaked onto Human Ceremony. 'Then we’ll see another band and want to make this super poppy, jangly guitar music, so we’ll jam on some really not hard rock stuff.” The record straddles the line between heavy-hitting black metal, classic rock, and indie dream pop—which is not really a line that's often straddled at all. The most obvious Sabbath-reference comes in at the tail end of “Creation Myth,” a song that starts almost as sweet and soothing as a Beach House track. Then, theres “Oh, I Just Don’t Know,” a duet that keeps the pace of a ‘70s folk rock song, with lots of string bending and finger picking. Crista and the band agrees that '2013' might be considered their most radiant pop song, by comparison. Coincidentally, it was first released on the EP. When they first heard the final mixes off of the album, they were in a van to Houston, following DIIV an No Joy's busses as the group's openers. 'I remember my first time listening to it with someone else,' Jacob says, 'we were driving from my house in Long Island to Shea Stadium [in Brooklyn]. The drive is basically as long as an average album, and when we pulled up it was right at the end of the last song—a perfect 38 minutes.' 'So much of our lives revolve around that drive,' Nick says about the back-and-forth to practice. Julia jokes that if they'd be paid a dollar for every minute they spend on the Long Island Expressway, they'd be a much richer band. But when a band becomes your life, this is just what comes with the territory. Shop Music
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