Pre-Order Item. Release Date Subject to Change.Label: PartisanRelease Date: 24th March Julia Cumming of supreme psych rock power pop group Sunflower Bean does a Carole King, Burty Bacharach and Carly Simon on the piano with glistening strings turn on her debut solo. Julia Cumming’s solo debut Julia opens with an unadorned declaration of independence: her voice and a piano uniting for a liberating proclamation of self that rejects doubt, misogyny, and the notion of being “too much.” Julia unlocks a creative door years in the making for the New York–born multi-instrumentalist and Sunflower Bean bassist, culminating after nearly two decades of bands, releases, labels, and relentless touring. As Sunflower Bean’s Headful of Sugar era ended in 2023, Cumming decamped to Los Angeles, where a two-year, deeply healing collaboration with producer Brian Robert Jones — her “second artistic puberty” — took shape. Drawing freely from formative influences: Burt Bacharach, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, and Brian Wilson. Julia emerges as a joyful, anti-cool coming-out: a celebration of the dorks, the misfits, and the enduring truth of being enough. Tracklist:A1 My LifeA2 Revel in the KnowledgeA3 Hollywood CommunicationA4 Please Let Me Remember ThisA5 Emotional LaborA6 Ruled By FearB1 Fucking ClosureB2 I Dream of a Fire That Stays Burning When Nobody Tends ItB3 Do It All AgainB4 Sounds of a SecretB5 Forget The Rest
