Cumming, Julia - Julia (Orchid red) LP

Julia Cumming's solo debut 'Julia' opens with an unadorned declaration of independence: her voice and a piano uniting for a liberating proclamation of self that rejects doubt, misogyny, and the notion of being 'too much'. Julia unlocks a creative door years in the making for the New York-born multi-instrumentalist and Sunflower Bean bassist, culminating after nearly two decades of bands, releases, labels, and relentless touring. As Sunflower Bean's Headful of Sugar era ended in 2023, Cumming decamped to Los Angeles, where a two-year, deeply healing collaboration with producer Brian Robert Jones - her 'second artistic puberty' - took shape.