Sunflower Bean - Mortal Primetime

Released 25th April 2025

SK says: 'The New York trio lean into their diverse influences- this record is reminiscent of, variously, Heart, Alvvays, Rilo Kiley and The Lemon Twigs among others- and end up sounding more like themselves than ever and all the better for it!'

Beloved NYC rock band Sunflower Bean return reinvigorated with Mortal Primetime, the most hard-fought and vulnerable album of their career. In the three years since their last LP Headful of Sugar, the members of Sunflower Bean - Julia Cumming, Nick Kivlen, and Olive Faber -drifted from one another as they pursued new projects and confronted personal challenges, tragedies and transformations. But Mortal Primetime the bands fourth album, but 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 (Il