Following from this, I asked Kivlen what role he believes artist should play in enacting or inciting change through their larger platforms. Sunflower Bean have been prominent political activists, even performing alongside The Strokes in a rally for Bernie Sanders in 2020. Sunflower Bean have been prominent political activists, even performing alongside The Strokes in a rally for Bernie Sanders in 2020 Exactly two years ago, they gave the lockdown order and all of a sudden it was very creepy.” “We spent the first three months apart and then in late May, when things were finally feeling a little bit more safe, we all started living together. So, the biggest influence was just having the time to write so much.” Interestingly, Kivlen shared they didn’t spend a lot of time together towards the start of lockdown due to New York being hit hard and early on in the COVID-19 pandemic. We were allowed to explore, and we spent so much time singing and writing and journaling and wrote a ton of songs.
There wasn’t really a deadline because no one knew what was going on in the world, so it wasn’t like we had to have a record turned in within nine months or something. Lockdown gave us so much time in our home studio to really work long hours and not do anything else. Kivlen answered, “I think that we’re always just kind of changing in a way, always doing whatever we want. With their third album ‘Headful of Sugar’ set for release on 6 th May 2022, Molly Hancock caught up with the guitarist of Sunflower Bean, Nick Kivlen.Īfter being sent their new album ‘Headful of Sugar’ two months prior to its release, and giving it a good few listens prior to talking to Kivlen, I delved in by asking how (or if) it was influenced by lockdown, with a definitive switch from a more alternative rock sound to one with more pop undertones.
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