
Five things we learned from our In Conversation video chat with Sunflower Bean
The Brooklyn-based trio share the inspiration behind their new album ‘Headful of Sugar’ and the “gleeful anarchy” that led to its sound.

Sunflower Bean announce new album 'Headful of Sugar' and share single 'Who Put You Up To This?'
"This is about fast pleasures, the sugar of life, the joy that comes with letting go of everything you thought mattered"

20 albums to get excited about in 2022
The next 12 months look set to be <em>massive</em>

Sunflower Bean tell us about their celebratory new single ‘Baby Don’t Cry’ and 2022 UK tour
The New York band told NME about the inspiration behind their first new material of the year and how being off the road helped them develop as artists

Manic Street Preachers: “We talked ourselves through oblivion”
Nicky Wire and James Dean Bradfield on their deeply personal 14th album 'The Ultra Vivid Lament'

The Manics tell us about their new single with Sunflower Bean's Julia Cumming
Nicky Wire explains the "melancholic but uplifting" new track 'The Secret He Had Missed', from the "glacial but high modernist" new LP 'The Ultra Vivid Lament

Manic Street Preachers share 'Orwellian' from 'The Ultra Vivid Lament' and announce UK tour
Their ABBA, Bowie and REM-inspired 14th album will arrive in September, and is launched with a gem that tackles our "perpetual state of culture war"

Sunflower Bean live in New York: cinematic shenanigans from pandemic-busting punks
The New York indie band headed to the city's Le Poisson Rouge for their first livestream gig

NME Radio Roundup 28 September 2020: Fleet Foxes, Pixies, Sunflower Bean and more
All the new bangers added to NME Radio this week

Watch Sunflower Bean's summery video for comeback single 'Moment In The Sun'
Track is about "finally recognising what is important in one’s life"