Sun Atoms is a project from Portland, Oregon’s Peter Holmström (The Dandy Warhols, Pete International Airport), Jsun Atoms (The Upsidedown, Daydream Machine), June Kang, Mars de Ponte, Derek Spencer Longoria-Gomez, and Eric Rubalcava. The band channels luminary influences including Leonard Cohen, The Cure, Moon Duo and Nick Cave into an amalgamation that combines psychedelic, dark wave and post-modern pop. Their sophomore LP Everything Forever realizes the promise of the band’s 2021 debut Let There Be Light, not only musically but in a sacred sense. Mixed at one of the greatest marvels of prehistoric Britain – Jagz Kooner’s Stone Circles Studios, at Avebury Henge – the album includes cameos from Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock, Jasno Swarez of The Vandelles, and Lauren Andino of Tremours amongst other luminaries. The production is world class, as the album was made as mix engineer Kooner and producer/bassist Homström were fresh off making The Dandy Warhols’ latest album Rockmaker during which they generated an extraordinary symbiosis. Kooner, who has been credited with creating some of the most genre-defining songs of the last thirty years, began his career working with Andrew Weatherall remixing and producing for the likes of Björk, New Order, and The Chemical Brothers. Sun Atoms were absolutely thrilled to get to work with a legend who has mixed Primal Scream, Massive Attack, Oasis, Killing Joke, and Garbage. Kooner and Homström elevated the songs in the production process, pushing the sonic envelope out into the great abyss. The coup de grace was having Keith Tenniswood (Spiritualized, Death in Vegas) master the album at Curve Pusher UK.
The LP’s initial single, “Ceiling Tiles,” drew praise from NYC’s The Big Takeover magazine, which wrote, “The music is a taste of the future. It may draw together recognizable gothic grooves and hushed tones, brooding bass lines and guitars that ebb and flow between abrasive salvos and chiming beauty, but, as always, it is the resulting sonic architecture rather than the building blocks themselves that are the whole point. The resultant song is a beautiful vision of a future for alternative music with all the bombast and bravado, volume and velocity, pose and ego stripped away.”
“Sun Atoms is a tripped-out opus packed with droning electronics, shimmering guitars, and dayglo melodies” ~ Brooklyn Vegan
“Pulsatingly addictive from its trippy melodic pop core to its psychedelic fringes… the catchiest goddamned catchiness we’ve been, umm, caught in this year and likely a fair portion of the last… it’s not a stretch to imagine Pete Shelley coming back to life just long enough to congratulate these six Atoms” – Stereo Embers Magazine
FCC Warning: Track 5, “Narco Polo (f/ Isaac Brock).” Digital servicing includes clean edit.
Recommended Tracks: Track 11, “Narco Polo (f/ Isaac Brock)” (clean edit), Track 1, “Take This Love,” Track 2, “Ceiling Tiles.”
Label: Little Cloud Records
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