New Jersey’s SUNROT has today released their new EP, Passages, via Prosthetic Records. Alongside Passages‘ release the band has shared an accompanying music video for The First Wound, documenting SUNROT‘s live touring cycle throughout 2024 and in-studio footage. Passages features guest appearances from both Dylan Walker (Full of Hell) and Brandon Hill (Cloud Rat), and arrives ahead of tour dates in support of Faetooth – detailed below.
WATCH MUSIC VIDEO FOR THE FIRST WOUND BELOW.
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Speaking on Passages’ release, SUNROT comments: “Passages is an EP about self liberation. Coming face to face with the oppressing forces inside you and doing what you have to do to get free of them. This is some of the stuff we have battled with ourselves. It’s kind of a war diary chronicling the struggle to be human. It’s always been really important in our own lives to hear songs and read lyrics that mirrored the trauma and grief and shit we were struggling with and if nothing else, we hope getting it out there can help someone make that kind of connection with it.”
A year after releasing their album,The Unfailing Rope, New Jersey’s SUNROT made their first foray to Europe to play a string of UK dates and perform at the esteemed Roadburn festival in the Netherlands. To close out this latest chapter of the noise/sludge band’s story, they will release an EP titled Passages. Written and recorded at the same time as The Unfailing Rope, Passages is a collection of five tracks that are a fitting accompaniment to the album, featuring guest appearances from Dylan Walker (Full of Hell) and Brandon Hill (Cloud Rat).
Continuing themes explored on The Unfailing Rope, these songs deal with trauma, grief and darkness. Sunrot offer a glimmer of hope and optimism at the EPs close with a noise track overlaid with audio of experimental musician Sun Ra talking about the power of music. As the band turns to the task of writing new material, Passages serves as a farewell to this iteration of SUNROT whilst the future stretches out in front of them.
Passages tracklist:
01. Death Knell
02. The First Wound (feat. Dylan Walker)
03. Sleep (feat. Brandon Hill)
04. Untethered
05. Ra
SUNROT is:
Christopher Eustaquio (he/him) – guitar
Rob Gonzalez (he/him) – guitar
Lex Santiago (he/they) – vocals & noise
Alex Dobrowolski (they/them) – drums
Ross Bradley (he/him) – bass
Upcoming SUNROT tour dates
w/ Faetooth
April 20 – TV Eye – Brooklyn, NY
April 22 – Middle East Upstairs – Cambridge, MA
April 23 – Milkboy – Philadelphia, PA
April 24 – Metro Gallery – Baltimore, MD