Start your new year by listening to something different.

Sarah and The Sundays are much more than an indie, alternative rock and roll band from Connecticut. Their album The Living End is a statement from the soul, a journey of self-love, honesty and a demand for more.

Vices confronts those echoey chasms with us is all that we try so hard to ignore that they then become earthquakes that shatter our surfaces. It mirrors are inner psyche dragging it up to the light. It asks of us who we are and who we are trying to be.

It’s all about people and their need for places, their zealous drive to take up spaces whilst frustration rushes to paint their faces. We don’t like who we are when we are sad but smile at ourselves when the sun shines upon us. Are we only good people when good things happen to us? Is that why we are shaded with all the bad, do our surroundings and their outcomes reflect who we are? Perhaps we are not always the positive light, the always right one after all.

The line “Do you remember how my life went to shit because I let it?” holds an honest sense of responsibility, an accountability for who we are when it is so easy to blame circumstance, civilians, our job, our lover when it is always and only us who have the power to change.

The band, made up of Liam Yorgensen,Brendan Whyburn,Declan Chill, Miles Reynolds and Quinn Lane navigate the innerworkings of mundanity, dodge the curveballs of life by dressing them up in a groove laden, sweet guitar melody, energetic drum beat and the finishing polish of  satirical lyrics.

Their song I’m so bored is inspiring take on a lump in bed. Boredom has a bad reputation, it’s artificial nights, closed eyes binging the same TV series and bad breath. Boredom is a barrier preventing us from our potential, this looming weight of what could be sits just behind the TV. But really boredom can lead to creativity and Sarah and The Sunday’s puts a fun spin on this concept.

 Life is happening in another room when you’re waiting for something to happen to you. Will that girl text me back? When will my patience be rewarded? Do good things really come to those who wait? Boredom is an act of rebellion, the need for change but not yet knowing how to incite it. A groan is a candle held up to dispel the weight of inertia, it is the need for something to happen and the want for more. Admitting your bored is a refusal to get comfortable, to strive for better to find what is out their and claim it. Be bored, be better.

Their instrumentals and chilled attitude are a welcome call back to bands such as the Happy fits, Dayglow and Group Love. From drinking pre-drank shots (see TikTok below) to selling out shows all over America this band are one for your new, year new me playlist.