Record curation by Sunflower Bean

New York trio Sunflower Bean—vocalist and bassist Julia Cumming (she/her), guitarist and vocalist Nick Kivlen (he/him), and drummer Olive Faber (she/her)—released their sophomore album Twentytwo in Blue in 2018, which skyrocketed to the UK’s Top 40, and quickly followed it with 2019’s King of the Dudes EP, which saw the band’s Triple A debut with “Come For Me.” Now, three years later, the band returns with their long-awaited third studio album. Headful of Sugar was released on May 6 via Mom + Pop, and follows Sunflower Bean navigating the agony and ecstasy of contemporary American life. A psychedelic headrush designed to be played loud with the windows down, Headful of Sugar features songwriting collaborations with the likes of Shamir, Suzy Shinn and Jacob Portrait (who also produced,
mixed and co-engineered the record with Faber).

DIIV – Oshin (Love Vinyl Records)

Pure X – Pleasure (Raging Imp Records)

Nirvana – Nevermind (Noise Lab Records)

Daft Punk – Discovery (John Farrugio)

Led Zeppelin – Houses Of The Holy (Arlington CDW, INC)

Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (Direct To U, LLC)

Yves Tumor – Safe In The Hands Of Love (Movement Trust, LLC)

Angel Olsen – My Woman (Black Dots Buffalo)

The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground (Siren Trading Company)

Dehd – Flower Of Devotion (Fine Southern Gentlemen)

Connan Mockasin – Forever Dolphin Love (Further Music)

The 1975 – Notes On A Conditional Form (Direct To U, LLC)

MGMT – Oracular Spectacular (Bull Trax LLC)

Best Coast – Crazy For You (Fuzzy Dog Books and Music)

Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Unknown Mortal Orchestra (Zion's Gate Records)

Sunflower Bean – Human Ceremony (Tracks)

Sunflower Bean – Twenty Two In Blue (Direct To U, LLC)

Sunflower Bean – Headful Of Sugar (Whoatone Records)

Caroline Polachek – Pang (Shuga Records)

Nico – Chelsea Girl (Asterritt)