Front Page Photo Credit: Alec Castillo

Native Sun are back with a new single: “Sister.” It was produced by NYC legend Walter Schreifels of Gorilla Biscuits & Quicksand (and Rival Schools and Youth of Today and like a million other insanely influential bands). It was engineered and mixed by Jeremey Snyder, who has worked alongside IDLES & Fontaines DC in the past. If you can find a sweet spot between all of those reference points, it sounds a little something like this. The song operates as a warts-and-all love letter to the band’s adoptive home of NYC, calling on Schreifels history to build a sonic bridge through decades of downtown skuzz.

“Dedicated to the experiences, real moments, and eternal characters of after-hours New York City – directionless and constantly searching for some sort of unknown,” the band writes about the song. “Grabbing the senses of a time and a place with the realities of streetwise independence that forever shape the individual. The urban landscape changes and decays, the emotions remain the same.” 

Artwork, courtesy of Alec Basse below. 

And if you’re in NYC next week, don’t miss your chance to catch Native Sun and their storied live show at Music Hall of Williamsburg with A Place To Bury Strangers. Tickets here. Don’t forget your earplugs, folks.