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August 3, 2026August 3, 2026 RadATL New music

Video Premiere: Sunset Honor Unit’s ‘Let The Wild Ones Run Free’

There’s a famous scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 film Notorious in which Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant share a seemingly supernatural kiss. Their movements unfold with ghostly fluidity, suspended somewhere between dream and reality, as though time itself is both sped up and slowed. Sunset Honor Unit’s video for their latest single, “Let the Wild Ones Run Free,” evokes a similarly haunting motion, albeit achieved through an entirely different cinematic language.

The song offers a first look at Sunset Honor Unit’s upcoming album, In the House of the Highest Dead Ends, due out October 2. If the striking visuals on display here are any indication, the group is entering a wholly new era with confidence, creativity, and a willingness to blur the line between the ordinary and the uncanny.

Directed by one of the band’s co-leads Drew Kirby, and shot by filmmaker David Tabor, the video unfolds as an ambitious single-shot take on a night in the life of Sunset Honor Unit. The camera follows the band through twisting basement corridors on a quiet journey, drawing viewers deeper into the song with every turn, as if the walls themselves are shifting around the performers.

Filmed in drummer John Restivo’s basement, the production was assembled entirely in-house with a cast of a half-dozen friends and collaborators.

“Let the Wild Ones Run Free” is a reintroduction to Sunset Honor Unit’s cosmic, alt country, folk pop and psychedelic balladry while expanding upon the group’s sonic identity. Here, the group is spearheaded by singers and guitar players Drew Kirby (CDSM, Mothers) and Jake Chisenhall (Delorean Gray, Floral Portrait). For this latest release, the lineup is filled out by drummer Restivo (CDSM), keyboard player Jason Bronson (Floral Portrait), and bass player Miller May (Misnomer).

More than a simple preview, “Let the Wild Ones Run Free” serves as a statement of intent. Between its mesmerizing single-take visuals and the band’s expanding musical vision, Sunset Honor Unit seems poised to step confidently into its next chapter, embracing the strange, the beautiful, and the uncanny in equal measure.

Sunset Honor Unit headlines an album release party at The Earl on Saturday, October 3, with Spencer Thomas, Flat Tired, and Feltie.

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February 2, 2023February 19, 2023 RadATL New music

Ladrones: ‘Máquina Caótica’

Ladrones are heading into the new year with plans to unleash the Máquina Caótica 7-inch EP via Die Slaughterhaus Records.

In the meantime, a video for the EP’s title track teases out the group’s feral garage-punk charge, as co-founders vocalist Valeria Sanchez and guitar player José Rivera are joined by bass player Paul Hernandez, and drummer Sam Adams.

Check out the scene for a backyard blowout at local punk, hardcore, and headbanger hangout, The Catacombs.

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April 10, 2021April 10, 2021 RadATL New music

Sad Fish tell a tale of trickery and human sacrifice with ‘Deusa’

Nearly four years have gone by since Sad Fish released the Take the Bait cassette EP (Godless America) in November of 2017. Much has changed since then.

With their latest single, titled “Deusa,” Sad Fish awakens from its long slumber wielding a more considered Brazilian pop sound, crafted by a new lineup that eschews the eccentricities of the group’s beginnings.

What began as singer, guitar and keyboard player, and main songwriter Arthur Cabral’s project has become a full band, as drummer, percussionist and engineer Lyle Baldes, and bass player Gracie Joo have settled in alongside Cabral and long standing drummer Emma Rubenstein. With the passage of time, and developing chemistry with a dedicated bass player and second percussionist, Sad Fish has learned how to articulate what the group’s previous concoctions of lo-fi Tropicália and psychedelic pop only hinted at—albeit sung entirely in Portuguese.

Cabral hails from Goiânia, Brazil. His innate musical inflections are an indelible part of Sad Fish’s sound, vision, and personality. Experimental time signatures, though, and a genuinely peculiar sense of humor have long been a part of the group’s identity as well. With “Deusa,” these elements are still there, but they’re employed with subtlety as the group remains focused on drawing out rhythms, melody, and a more sophisticated musical experience (a la Sue Jorge, Caetano Veloso, and Os Mutantes).

The video, directed by Bill Guzik, and starring Eliana Heiser, Bishop Harry, and Pete Though, brings the group’s surreal and cinematic inclinations to life with a noirish tale of trickery and human sacrifice.

“Deusa” is the first single from an as yet untitled album that’s due out this Fall—Sad Fish’s first proper full-length.

Sad Fish is playing a live-streaming set of unreleased songs from the new album at Casa Nova on Monday, April 19. Tune in via Facebook, and keep your eyes peeled for more details coming soon.

Sad Fish are (from left to right) Lyle Baldes, Arthur Cabral, Emma Rubenstein, and Gracie Joo.
Photo by Klaudia Wski.

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