Julia Cumming – Please Let Me Remember This
Following the release of her surprise debut solo single, “My Life” last month, Julia Cumming – longtime frontwoman of NYC rock band Sunflower Bean – shares the latest from her upcoming solo record, Julia (April 24th, Partisan Records).
“Please Let Me Remember This” shimmers with trembling piano, gauzy guitars and Julia’s crystalline, searching voice. A slow-burning dream-pop plea, its lyrical impetus stems from the unsettling truth that painful memories cling tighter than joyful ones.
The track, says Julia, is a direct nod to her key influences and biggest musical inspirations, The Beach Boys. Specifically, the song’s ethos was born of the tiny, mundane details she noted in “Busy Doing Nothing” from their beloved 1968 album Friends.
She elaborates, “It started with two questions: Why are our sad and painful moments easier to remember than our happy ones? And why can’t we choose what we let go of, or what we get to keep? There’s a surrender that comes with memory, and it’s always fascinated me. I wanted to create a song using these little vignettes to explore the lack of control we have over what we remember. I wanted to capture the desperation that comes with trying to turn an immaterial experience into something that could be held onto.”
Last week, Julia made her international TV debut with a captivating performance of “My Life” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, offering viewers a compelling first glimpse of her solo sound on a national stage.
At the time her only solo release, the performance felt both intimate and self-assured, carried by her easy, understated presence. Her first live shows are planned for April and May – all dates below.
Lauded over the past several years as one of the most captivating frontwomen in rock – “a genre shapeshifter with her soft yet tough-as-nails voice,” as one music critic once put it – Julia, her first album with esteemed indie Partisan, marks a brand new chapter for Julia Cumming, a clear and unadorned declaration of stepping out on her own. Not a rebrand, but a full creative rebirth.
Julia, is a self-assured debut shaped by agency, artistic freedom, and the quiet courage of choosing oneself. Across its songs, Julia finds freedom not through reinvention, but through release and letting go of expectation, perception, and the pressure to be enough for anyone but herself, embracing joy, vulnerability, and autonomy on her own terms.
JULIA CUMMING 2026 TOUR
April 28th – New York City – Public Records with support from Truman Flyer
April 30th – Los Angeles – Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery with support from Poppy Jean Crawford
May 12th – London – Moth Club
May 13th – Manchester – YES (Basement)
May 14th – Brighton – The Great Escape Festival
May 16th – Amsterdam – London Calling
May 18th – Berlin – Mikropol
May 20th – Paris – L’Archipel
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