July 5, 2024 • 7 mins
Best known for his career-launching band Atlas, Sean Cunningham has released a new and very personal album.
The ten track album is an exploration for Sean, blending a variety of genres and sounds as he tries to figure out what his style is.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It be.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
She picks me, your takes me up, smaked my cigarettes,
drink my team, and she takes me home, lives there.
Summer dream could be My Honey, My Honey.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Should wicker versus Sean Cunningham. That song is called Honeybee.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
He's just released an album called whatever that is, and
our music review at Cell Clifford has been listening Morina Marina.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
That's actually one of my favorites entire album, Honeybee, and
a reason to go back and listen to it a
few times. That driving percussion beats that you can hear
is actually Sean slapping his knee.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh wow, okay, yeah, are playing.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
He's not.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
At the same time, He's like record. It's not like
I kind of like Asion where we have like the
symbols between your knees and one.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
I mean, if he wants to be a solo artist,
you know, like I mean, maybe he hasn't visualized.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
That for himself.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I'm not being crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It was.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
But also some really great street performers.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Who is amazing. Sorry anyway, we've immediately the great.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Thing about recording a solo album is you can do
all the layers yourself. And so he created this percussion
drum beat on his knee and it is just knee
slaps mic nice and close recorded it like that and
gives us real driving rhythm to underneath.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Inspired by the Beatles.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
If you watch that massive long doco of the Beatles
putting their album together before they broke up.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Oh yeah, Paul McCartney's also.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Sometimes done, you know, like a driving percussion beat or
something that's just playing around with something that's not a
traditional instrument. Yeah, sort of influenced.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
By by those guys.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
But yeah, Honeybee, great song. Definitely one of my favorites
on the album. This is a really cool evolution, I
think for Sean Cunningham. I mean he was huge here.
If we give a little bit of history to the
band Atlas.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah we had, but we played it.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Did you play Crawl?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Oh yeah that wasn't just.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Take you back.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Were all wearing our bootleg jeans, massive chunky belts with
the big.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Yeah like emo rock.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
You know, you're wearing a dark eyeliner and your fringe
all weird and spiky over your forehead. And just he
had such a cool voice that really stood out on
that song, and I think that's what made it stand out.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
It was very successful. That song was incredibly successful in
New Zealand.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Yeah, And so he.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Carried on with with that band for a little while.
But then what broke them up. I didn't know this
was that he lost his voice. So he lost his
ability to sing, and after like going back to Nashville,
he had to seek like some full on treatment and things.
He was going through therapy for his voice. Turns out
major allergies but also past smoker just all caught up
on him and wow, Yeah, he had to like go
(03:17):
on some full on allergy stuff instead of sart of
getting his voice back, he began into another band when
he was in Nashville and in the States, and they
were quite successful for a while too over there, but
he said he got sick of the band politics right,
I love get totally right, And he'd been in band
since high school and it was like, what else, what's
the evolution next? And so I think taking the solo
(03:38):
thing means that he's probably you know, you're mature, you grow,
and you also are willing to delve into your emotions
a little bit further, right, and he definitely does that
one of the title track, whatever that is. He said
he wrote that about six months prior to his dad passing, right,
and so he'd been having these really intense chats with
his dad about aging and you know, you you still
(04:02):
feel like you're twenty something inside, but your body's seventy something,
and you know what does that mean and what does
it look like and what does it mean for life?
So quite a special song for him, I think, to
share and have on his album after his you know,
dad eventually passing, and that's actually been a really big
single for him to so again, he has that really
stellar voice. Sometimes he reminds me of Passenger with that,
(04:27):
you know, that real rolling rhythm and melody that Passenger
gets gets his songs, and when it's an acoustic guitar
and a few sort of drum percussion bits behind him,
he's got that kind of sort of indie folk sort
of sound about him. And it's really great because it
feels like he's more in tune with what he wants
to do musically. So I think I like that evolution
(04:49):
in him finding his place, I suppose after being a
band member for so and so this album definitely is
more touching on his personal stories, his personal journeys, and
for me, I feel like you can connect with him
more as an artist because of that and just finding
what his and I get that sometimes you try and
be all the different things, right, you do rock and
(05:10):
you do pop, but actually you can bring all of
those things together and make a really cohesive musically.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
There's some really.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Beautiful moments in this and sometimes it's because it's quite
simplistic and more of that acoustic and in other times
it's like lots of layers with the electronics stuff he's
put in as well, so more encompassing, full anthem type songs,
you know what I mean. And again, now that I've
seen Passenger at live a couple of times, it's kind
(05:37):
of something that he sort of does too, definitely reflective
on a lot of his Like he one of his
songs called Lonesome No More. That's a really good trick too,
and that's sort of him commenting about his sobriety journey.
So again, real personal stories, you know, you can do
that when it's just about you. But I really like
(05:57):
what he's done here is he's really taken on a
bit of the album goes on a bit of a journey,
so you know, from start to finish, just quite a
good way to listen to it. A few times, I
think beautiful music to perhaps sometimes just having the background
while you're doing stuff. Other times real tune up tunes.
You can kind of come in and out of this album,
which I really I think is is really great, real
(06:18):
beautiful listen.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
And he is coming here to tour. I believe in
summer some stage, very good as a solo artist.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
So what did you give it?
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Get your hands sleps ready, it's a teen for me?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
What that is?
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I knew you'd be concerned. I was wrong. It wasn't you.
It was Dick Van Dyke and Mary Poppins, Remember Poppins.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
You blur those two movies together, like am I?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah, surely I'm not the only one who does our fault.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
They cast the same cast for exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, so it was Dick Van Dyke and Mary Poppins.
Sorry who was doing which is totally unrelated to Seawann Cunningham.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Just to be totally clear.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Also, we could picture it to him right, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Maybe he's a talented guy. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Thanks to.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Our music reviewer, there eight out of ten for whatever
that is from Sean Cunning and we have a bit
more of a listen in a few minutes
Speaker 1 (07:12):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, Listen live
to News Talks ed B from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It be.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
She picks me, your takes me up, smaked my cigarettes,
drink my team, and she takes me home, lives there.
Summer dream could be My Honey, My Honey.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Should wicker versus Sean Cunningham. That song is called Honeybee.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
He's just released an album called whatever that is, and
our music review at Cell Clifford has been listening Morina Marina.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
That's actually one of my favorites entire album, Honeybee, and
a reason to go back and listen to it a
few times. That driving percussion beats that you can hear
is actually Sean slapping his knee.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh wow, okay, yeah, are playing.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
He's not.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
At the same time, He's like record. It's not like
I kind of like Asion where we have like the
symbols between your knees and one.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
I mean, if he wants to be a solo artist,
you know, like I mean, maybe he hasn't visualized.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
That for himself.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I'm not being crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It was.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
But also some really great street performers.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Who is amazing. Sorry anyway, we've immediately the great.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Thing about recording a solo album is you can do
all the layers yourself. And so he created this percussion
drum beat on his knee and it is just knee
slaps mic nice and close recorded it like that and
gives us real driving rhythm to underneath.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Inspired by the Beatles.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
If you watch that massive long doco of the Beatles
putting their album together before they broke up.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Oh yeah, Paul McCartney's also.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Sometimes done, you know, like a driving percussion beat or
something that's just playing around with something that's not a
traditional instrument. Yeah, sort of influenced.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
By by those guys.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
But yeah, Honeybee, great song. Definitely one of my favorites
on the album. This is a really cool evolution, I
think for Sean Cunningham. I mean he was huge here.
If we give a little bit of history to the
band Atlas.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah we had, but we played it.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Did you play Crawl?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Oh yeah that wasn't just.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Take you back.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Were all wearing our bootleg jeans, massive chunky belts with
the big.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Yeah like emo rock.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
You know, you're wearing a dark eyeliner and your fringe
all weird and spiky over your forehead. And just he
had such a cool voice that really stood out on
that song, and I think that's what made it stand out.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
It was very successful. That song was incredibly successful in
New Zealand.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Yeah, And so he.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Carried on with with that band for a little while.
But then what broke them up. I didn't know this
was that he lost his voice. So he lost his
ability to sing, and after like going back to Nashville,
he had to seek like some full on treatment and things.
He was going through therapy for his voice. Turns out
major allergies but also past smoker just all caught up
on him and wow, Yeah, he had to like go
(03:17):
on some full on allergy stuff instead of sart of
getting his voice back, he began into another band when
he was in Nashville and in the States, and they
were quite successful for a while too over there, but
he said he got sick of the band politics right,
I love get totally right, And he'd been in band
since high school and it was like, what else, what's
the evolution next? And so I think taking the solo
(03:38):
thing means that he's probably you know, you're mature, you grow,
and you also are willing to delve into your emotions
a little bit further, right, and he definitely does that
one of the title track, whatever that is. He said
he wrote that about six months prior to his dad passing, right,
and so he'd been having these really intense chats with
his dad about aging and you know, you you still
(04:02):
feel like you're twenty something inside, but your body's seventy something,
and you know what does that mean and what does
it look like and what does it mean for life?
So quite a special song for him, I think, to
share and have on his album after his you know,
dad eventually passing, and that's actually been a really big
single for him to so again, he has that really
stellar voice. Sometimes he reminds me of Passenger with that,
(04:27):
you know, that real rolling rhythm and melody that Passenger
gets gets his songs, and when it's an acoustic guitar
and a few sort of drum percussion bits behind him,
he's got that kind of sort of indie folk sort
of sound about him. And it's really great because it
feels like he's more in tune with what he wants
to do musically. So I think I like that evolution
(04:49):
in him finding his place, I suppose after being a
band member for so and so this album definitely is
more touching on his personal stories, his personal journeys, and
for me, I feel like you can connect with him
more as an artist because of that and just finding
what his and I get that sometimes you try and
be all the different things, right, you do rock and
(05:10):
you do pop, but actually you can bring all of
those things together and make a really cohesive musically.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
There's some really.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Beautiful moments in this and sometimes it's because it's quite
simplistic and more of that acoustic and in other times
it's like lots of layers with the electronics stuff he's
put in as well, so more encompassing, full anthem type songs,
you know what I mean. And again, now that I've
seen Passenger at live a couple of times, it's kind
(05:37):
of something that he sort of does too, definitely reflective
on a lot of his Like he one of his
songs called Lonesome No More. That's a really good trick too,
and that's sort of him commenting about his sobriety journey.
So again, real personal stories, you know, you can do
that when it's just about you. But I really like
(05:57):
what he's done here is he's really taken on a
bit of the album goes on a bit of a journey,
so you know, from start to finish, just quite a
good way to listen to it. A few times, I
think beautiful music to perhaps sometimes just having the background
while you're doing stuff. Other times real tune up tunes.
You can kind of come in and out of this album,
which I really I think is is really great, real
(06:18):
beautiful listen.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
And he is coming here to tour. I believe in
summer some stage, very good as a solo artist.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
So what did you give it?
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Get your hands sleps ready, it's a teen for me?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
What that is?
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I knew you'd be concerned. I was wrong. It wasn't you.
It was Dick Van Dyke and Mary Poppins, Remember Poppins.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
You blur those two movies together, like am I?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah, surely I'm not the only one who does our fault.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
They cast the same cast for exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, so it was Dick Van Dyke and Mary Poppins.
Sorry who was doing which is totally unrelated to Seawann Cunningham.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Just to be totally clear.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Also, we could picture it to him right, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Maybe he's a talented guy. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Thanks to.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Our music reviewer, there eight out of ten for whatever
that is from Sean Cunning and we have a bit
more of a listen in a few minutes
Speaker 1 (07:12):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, Listen live
to News Talks ed B from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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