“Listening to the debut album from Brooklyn trio Sunflower Bean is a bit like flipping through some smart stoner's impeccably refined record collection. All the correct drone-rock references are present: the Velvet Underground at their beachiest, the Autobahn liftoff of vintage Seventies Kraut-rock, the Eighties drug-punk of Spaceman 3, recent garage-grind aesthetes like Ty Segall, and the entire c”
“On first look at Sunflower Bean, you might think Bob Dylan had dropped in on Debbie Harry and formed a band with Frank Zappa. As awesome as that sounds, this New York trio are actually better. And on debut album ‘Human Ceremony’, they fuse Led Zeppelin’s raunchy riffs with the blissful mid-’80s indie of Felt, the best bits of ’80s alt-pop (The Cure) and krautrock (Neu!) and, in front-duo Julia Cum”
“Being a teenager is all about testing out different personalities to figure out who you really are. This kind of personality development, for better or worse, defines Sunflower Bean’s full-length debut, Human Ceremony.”
