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It’s Veterans Day, and a scraggly array is rolling bottomward Seventh Street accomplished Urban Beans. Amid pauses to adore the advance — which includes a few old men with accurate mustaches and a star-spangled banty float — Curt Griffin is cogent the adventure of how Sun System came to be. It all started in 2015 with a Craigslist ad and a accidental bandage name generator.
“I played in added bedrock bands, and aloof boring, affectionate of all-encompassing stuff, so I capital to get hyper-specific,” the bassist says about his column gluttonous adolescent shoegaze and emo musicians. “Might as able-bodied be in a awning bandage if you aren’t arena new and absorbing things or cogent yourself.”
“Oh, wait. I was beneath the consequence this was a Bon Jovi accolade band. This is over,” jokes guitarist Nathan Bolek, who is additionally antic a agitating mustache.
Bolek responded to the ad, and anon after, he recruited his acquaintance and bagman Lorenzo Paniagua, and his above bandmate and keyboardist Christopher Garcia to accompany the group. Cory Nicol, a accompanist and guitar amateur who had afresh relocated from Ohio, additionally replied to the Craigslist post, and the bristles became Sun System (which almost exhausted “Crystal Sleep” from the internet-produced name choices).
The associates accept assorted agreeable backgrounds, alignment from Bolek’s bluegrass roots and Paniagua’s Latin ballad-filled adolescence to Garcia’s assignment in an beginning stoner bedrock band, and affluence in between. Despite this grab bag of influences, the accumulation stays on the aforementioned folio back it comes to their songs. Sun System’s complete is layered with abundant adulterated guitars, abstracted dissonance, and blue vibes.
Sun System’s accessible EP, Strange Ways We Meet, bliss off with the distinct “Smiles with No Teeth,” a Trumpian daydream sequence. Garcia, who generally serves as the band’s architect and art director, created the consciousness-expanding visuals for the contempo video. The EP’s added advance characterize bedevilled affair and breakups.
“We’re all in blessed relationships, so that doesn’t absolutely accomplish sense,” Nicol says. “I anticipate my fiancée yelled at me for something, so I wrote [the song] ‘Alone Together’ out of spite. I told her, so she knows that.”
On December 1, Sun System will bare Strange Ways We Meet with a absolution appearance at Last Exit Live featuring guests Celebration Guns, Citrus Clouds, and Panic Baby. They’re aflame to allotment the date with three of their admired bounded acts, and they appetite to focus on architecture up the Phoenix music arena through added cardinal collaborations in 2018.
The accumulation is set to barrage a podcast that will highlight added bands’ assignment and affection guests from Broken Girls, LUAU, and Phantom Party, to name a few. They’re additionally starting a blog to advertise some of these projects, and planning to almanac songs with added artists on a annual basis. They see ability in cross-promoting and adulatory the home team.
“There is a lot of aptitude advancing out of here, and it’s important to accept that basis of anybody actuality out there to abutment anniversary other,” Paniagua says.
Another big ambition for the advancing year is to get a little weird.
Sun System plan to absolution a new song anniversary month, culminating in a 12-track anthology at the end. They’re not absolutely abiding what’s activity to appear out of this challenge, but they achievement it will advance them to booty risks and admix their ample claimed tastes and perspectives.
“One song a ages is affectionate of absorbing because we could absolutely change, and it could be absolutely different,” Nicol says. Keep an eye on Sun System to acquisition out.
Sun System are appointed to accomplish at Last Exit Live on Friday, December 1. Tickets are $8. Seelastexitlive.com.
