SUNNSETTER Releases Blistering New Single, “Fear it comes in waves” from New Album, Heaven Hang Over Me Confirmed For November 15
Sunnsetter, the music project of accomplished and prolific multi-instrumentalist, composer, and mixing engineer, Andrew McLeod returns with a runaway freight train of a new single with, “Fear it comes in waves”. Right out of the gate, the track is a sonic uppercut. It lock-steps full-throttle duelling soaring guitar lines and heavenly layered vocals. To Andrew it’s their examination of “the daily dread or anxiety that just finds its way into your everyday life, in waves, even when you find ways to cope with it.” Never did panic pack such a melodic punch.
Sunnsetter has also confirmed their new full-length, Heaven Hang Over Me is set for a November 15, 2024 release, on Paper Bag Records.
The new album title curiously, is drawn from a couple entirely independent sources. ‘Heaven’ is in 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 translated to Andrew’s ears as “heaven hang over now.” Another notable Sunnsetter mash up.
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In 2023 Sunnsetter released, The best that I can be. (their debut album with Paper Bag Records). Sunnsetter’s current musical mindset: a masterful collision of soft and loud, and genre meshing that both whiplashes 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), Hannah Edgerton (bass/vocals), 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.”
Sunnsetter works primarily from their home studio in rural Norfolk County. Andrew is also a collaborator, contributor, and player with three-time Polaris nominated/ twice shortlisted, and Juno nominated ZOON, the solo music project of Daniel Monkman, and 2023 Juno nominees, OMBIIGIZI.