SUN ATOMS / TREEFORT 10 / BOISE, IDAHO / SONIC TEMPLE RED / NO. 01

Their Treefort bio quotes The Boston Globe who called Jsun’s music “dreamy and decadent in all the right places.” Sun Atoms is the debut effort from Portland, Oregon’s Jsun Atoms and friends. Produced by The Dandy Warhols’ guitar pedal maestro Peter Holmström and mixed by London’s legendary Stephen Street (Blur, The Smiths, The Cranberries). The rich pedigree is evident in this 8 song LP, Let There Be Light, which came out October 1st on Little Cloud Records in the USA and sold out on The Acid Test Recordings in Europe.

The album opener is a kaleidoscopic collaboration with The Black Angels’ Alex Maas on vocals and Mellotron. At the center of the Sun, atoms under intense pressure from gravity undergo a process. This album is an incredible combination of psychedelic dark wave and postmodern pop due in part to some first-rate guest performances including the leader of Brooklyn’s The Vandelles, Jasno Swarez, producer Peter Holmström (Pete International Airport, The Dandy Warhols), Gregg Williams (Sheryl Crow, Blitzen Trapper), St. Louis beat boss drummer Bob Mild, and Sacramento punks Pets, to name a few. The genres bend and blend song to song through such luminary influences as Love and Rockets, Moon Duo, The Cure, Nick Cave, Spiritualized, and Leonard Cohen. Sun Atoms’ bands (The Upsidedown, Daydream Machine) have been tour support for The Jesus and Mary Chain, Black Rebel Motorcylce Club, Allah-Las, and Luna. My Bloody Valentine’s Colm Ó Ciosóig and Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval picked Atoms’ music for their Brooklyn Vegan playlist and had his band open for them on tour. The Dandy Warhols’ have had Sun Atoms’ bands as main support in Australia, Canada, and several tours of the States. He has also performed several times at The Black Angels’ Levitation Festival, SXSW, and Joshua Tree’s Desert Stars Festival.

Sun Atoms spent the pandemic year in the studio with long time collaborator Peter Holmström, crafting the songs and sending files back and forth from London, Brooklyn, Austin, and Sacramento. The live version of Sun Atoms, features Peter Holmström from The Dandy Warhols and Peter International Airport, Derek Spencer Longoria Gomez from Boise, Idaho's Hi Hazel, June Kang from Portland's Soft Shadows, Bob Mild from Portland's The Upsidedown and Souvenir Driver, Mars de Ponte from LoveBomb Go-Go, and project founder and namesake Jsun Atoms from Portland's The Upsidedown and Daydream Machine.

Sun Atoms, Let There Be Light. Album Review. Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10: "Let There Be Light, and the world will be illuminated. ...Dark noir and the light fantastic, that Sun Atoms not only prevails in the art form, but excels with amour, with fun, exuberance, and a kind of cosmic energy, one normally only found in such small quantities throughout the universe, and yet which seems to overflow throughout this impressive album ... for in Sun Atoms we feel the warmth and heat of the unique position exposed."—Ian D. Hall.

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