Bleeding Hearts

2018 release from the Canadian band. Bleeding Hearts was produced by Cone McCaslin (The Strumbellas, Sum41), mixed by Dave Schiffman (PUP, Blood Orange, Johnny Cash), and mastered by Howie Weinberg (Nirvana, Future Islands, Spoon). Rock n roll, if it serves one direct purpose, is to articulate life lived to the fullest be it messy, beautiful, or a complete disaster. For more than half a century, rock n roll musicians have been able to show us the contours of lived human experiences, scrambling to make sense of it all through screaming guitar riffs and rhythmic drum beats, hypnotic as they are soothing. This is what Sun K try to do on their thunderous sophomore record, Bleeding Hearts, which contains the whole spectrum of emotion in its 12 songs. The title of the album alone is a hat-tip toward the fraught, yet hyperbolic, emotional experiences one can endure. Vocalist and guitarist Kristian Montano says of the albums title that the band is exemplified by just that. This is what youre like in your 20s if youre a bunch of expressive, emotional people, he says. You know, we really wear our hearts on our sleeves and the lyrics, the music, really reflect that. Its songs about love and songs about, you know, all the stuff you experience: love, hate, angst, devotion.