Valeria Martins

Noise-Punk Explorers Sunflowers Share a Buzzsaw of a New Single “I Got Friends”

Noise-punk explorers Sunflowers share their latest single “I Got Friends“, a jagged mash of buzzsaw guitars, discordant rock and sardonic lyricism. The track is a wry exposé of the social capital game that defines far more than the industry wants to admit. Drenched in fuzz and fueled by contempt, “I Got Friends”  lays bare the unspoken deals, fake merit, and network games that run beneath the surface. It’s brutal, it’s honest, and it hits uncomfortably close to home – it’s less ‘scene’ and more ‘scam.’

It’s the second look at You Have Fallen… Congratulations! – their new album, which is set for release on November 7th through Fuzz Club Records.

The track comes with a suitably scrappy and caustic video put together by the band themselves.

Sunflowers is a band from Porto, Portugal, that’s never afraid to evolve. Formed in 2014 by the duo of Carlos de Jesus and Carolina Brandão, the lineup expanded when Frederico Ferreira joined in 2018, further solidifying the unique chemistry that has become a hallmark of their sound. Just ask anyone who’s seen them live.

They make noise like it’s a language of survival. Their sound blends blistering punk energy with layers of distortion, experimental chaos, and existential release — always teetering between catharsis and collapse. They are not here to comfort you. They are here to rip the floor out from under you. Their music is a living organism—loud, messy, and mutating in real time. Nevermore-so on this latest outing.

A jagged, blown-out descent into psychological free-fall, the band’s first album for Fuzz Club, You Have Fallen… Congratulations!, finds them refining their chaotic signature while letting go of structure altogether. It’s a record that refuses to look away from the madness of modern existence — choosing instead to laugh, scream, and contort itself into something stranger, louder, and far more unstable.

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