Sunflower Bean – There’s a Part I Can’t Get Back

Sunflower Bean – Julia Cumming (vocals, bass), Nick Kivlen (vocals, guitar) and Olive Faber (drums) – will release their transformative new album Mortal Primetime this Friday, April 25th, on Lucky Number. 

They have already shared early singles “Champagne Taste” and “Nothing Romantic,” and today they share one final preview that shows another side of the record. A powerful and searing track about personal experiences with being groomed, “There’s a Part I Can’t Get Back” finds Cumming “as intentional and direct as possible,” as she grapples with what she encountered. Central to the themes of the record, the video for “There’s a Part I Can’t Get Back” finds all three members of Sunflower Bean supporting one another as they fight to regain their footing. Listen to the song and watch the moving video from Harv Frost.

Cumming explains of the track: “This song is about the lasting scars of grooming—the parts of yourself that are stolen and the anger you carry because of it. It came to me in such a raw and direct way, there was no second-guessing or wondering how I felt. I didn’t want to write a song about being healed, I wanted to be angry about needing to heal at all. The line, ‘If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord lets me get even first,’ is important because it captures the intensity of these feelings and how they go beyond logic. I am confronting the pain and the questions that will never be answered.”

Tour dates

4/25 – New York, NY @ Rough Trade

4/30 – Kingston, UK @ Pryzm (Disco Room) 

5/1 – Leeds, UK @ Belgrave Music Hall 

5/2 – Liverpool, UK @ Baltic 

5/3 – London, UK @ Rough Trade East

5/4 – Brighton, UK @ Resident

5/15 – Troy, NY @ No Fun *

5/16 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brendas *

5/17 – Boston, MA @ Deep Cuts *

5/22 – Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw # 

5/23 – Washington, DC @ The Atlantis #

5/24 – Raleigh, NC @ Kings #

5/25 – Asheville, NC @ Eulogy #

5/27 – Nashville, TN @ Blue Room at Third Man Records #

5/28 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl #

5/30 – Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves #

5/31 – Austin, TX @ The Ballroom #

6/01 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Upstairs #

6/04 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar #

6/05 – San Diego, CA @ The Casbah #

6/06 – Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room #

6/07 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel #

6/9 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios #

6/10 – Seattle, WA @ Madame Lou’s #

6/12 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court

6/13 – Fort Collins, CO @ The Coast #

6/14 – Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive

6/17 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry #

6/19 – Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village #

6/20 – Detroit, MI @ Third Man Records 

6/21 – Toronto, ON @ The Garrison

* with Laveda

# with Gift 

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