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May 6, 2022With Headful of Sugar, Sunflower Bean turn the pangs of growing up into hypnotic, intoxicating pop.
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May 6, 2022Ultimately an exercise in Sunflower Bean showing off that they can do just about everything well.
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May 4, 2022It’s a passionately fearless and honest body of work, one that pays no heed to the prevailing and increasingly regressive backward looking indie rock trends. Indeed this is undoubtedly a forward-thinking album full of vibrancy and excitement, one that engages the head and the heart from a band who have always strived to do both, and it succeeds on pretty much every level.
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May 5, 2022All in all, its a beautiful sign of the times - psychedelic and indie focused in melody, with poignant and important lyrics giving a pulse to an otherwise-relaxed-sounding project.
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May 5, 2022‘Headful Of Sugar’ sees the band more confident and more in control. Using those feelings of helplessness as fuel for the fire, this album is full of enough strength, empowerment, resilience and joy.
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UncutMay 4, 2022It all combines to paint a picture of a band entering a distinct new phase. [Jun 2022, p.33]
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May 4, 2022With cinematic soundscapes of art-rock in tow, Headful of Sugar is a heavenly ride that actively embraces a full spectrum of feeling; from self-destructive tendencies to the saccharine thrills of youth.