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
Nicky Wire and James Dean Bradfield on their deeply personal 14th album 'The Ultra Vivid Lament'
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
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"
The New York indie band headed to the city's Le Poisson Rouge for their first livestream gig
All the new bangers added to NME Radio this week
Track is about "finally recognising what is important in one’s life"
On the sly, Sunflower Bean have proven themselves one of the world's coolest, funnest and, er, hard-workingest bands. Following the brilliant 'Twentytwo In Blue' – a Top Five entry in NME's Albums Of 2018 – the New York trio today release the rocking follow-up EP, 'King Of The Dudes'. Rhian Daly meets them in Brooklyn to talk about music, patriarchy-smashing and that time at band camp.