SUNNSETTER Shares “I feel everything” From New Album, Heaven Hang Over Me, Confirmed For November 15 On Paper Bag Records
Sunnsetter, the music project of accomplished and prolific multi-instrumentalist, composer, and mixing engineer, Andrew McLeod returns with what feels like a lullaby in quicksand, in the new single“I feel everything” taken from his forthcoming album, Heaven Hang Over Me. The wash of fuzzed-out guitars, distorted vocals, and plodding drumbeat lulls the listener into an unsettled contemplation. It perhaps, reflects Andrew’s keen analysis of their own innermost feelings that form the lyrical backbone to the track (and much of the album).
“This song is about emotions that never let up. Feeling anything and everything, all of the time,” they explain.“The feeling of never being able to escape it, permeating every part of you until you forget everything you believe to be true because of that one moment of intense emotion.”
Sunnsetter’s new full-length, Heaven Hang Over Me will be released November 15, 2024, on Paper Bag Records. ‘Heaven’ is a reference to the universal energy that surrounds us, not some extension of a religious faith.
“I talk about it as this feeling, knowing it’s there, not knowing what it is or how to explain its existence. I don’t see the world as a literal place.”
Andrew also completely misheard a Nirvana lyric (in 1993’s In Utero track, ‘Dumb’) and that earworm has stuck ever since. When Cobain sings ‘have a hangover now” it accidentally translates to Andrew’s ears as “heaven hang over now.” Another notable Sunnsetter mash-up.
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“This song captures the weight of emotional struggle, balancing raw vulnerability with quiet resilience. The haunting repetition of the lyrics emphasizes the intensity of feeling everything so deeply, making it a powerful and introspective track that sticks with you.”
PRE-ORDER / PRE-SAVE, Heaven Hang Over Me from Paper Bag Records, HERE.
Sunnsetter will play an album release show in Hamilton, ON at Into The Abyss on November 30. Tickets are available HERE.
In 2023 Sunnsetter released, The best that I can be. (their debut album with Paper Bag). Sunnsetter’s current musical mindset: a masterful collision of soft and loud, and genre meshing that both whiplash the listener and sonically appeases the soul with the melodic dexterity they manage to achieve within a tidal wave of sound.
With Heaven Hang Over Me, Sunnsetter is dogmatically pursuing the through line between light and dark and the balance within quiet and loud. It’s been a career calling.
“There is a catharsis that comes from playing heavy music that I find myself pining after, since starting to play live as a band. The feeling of letting go and yelling and carrying on in front of people in a room is something that really drives me. Enveloping myself and everyone else in that room with sound, and letting it take over in a way that feels overwhelming and all consuming.”
The truest version of what music can be for Sunnsetter, comes out in that environment.
In the last year, Sunnsetter has organically evolved into a full band entity supporting McLeod which includes: Cole Sefton (guitar), Trevor Cooke (drums), and Kyle Gottschalk (keyboards).
“The last year and a half has been wonderful, we have journeyed and grown as a group of people, and as a band,” says Andrew. “Having these people around to turn this dream into a reality has been an incredible experience. We all love to play music and we all have a similar outlook on how this can work.”