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Clear Skies Ahead for Vancouver Indie Band Sunny Pompeii

Vancouver’s Sunny Pompeii releases EP, Breakfast of Champignons.

"She rides like a wave. Lays it on thick and makes you eat it. Like a roller coaster made out of light. A deep dish pizza pie from outer space.”
 
Nope, it’s not the latest innovation in theme park technology or a futuristic dining experience – it’s how Simon Marmorek describes his band, Sunny Pompeii’s music.
 
If that description is leaving you a little bit confused, then think 90’s lo-fi indie crashing into a psychedelic, synthesized future.

Sunny Pompeii was formed by high-school friends Aubrey Ellefson, Spencer Schoening (also of Juno-Award winning band Said the Whale) and Marmorek, and was later rounded out by Joel Reid. The Vancouver locals released their debut EP, Breakfast of Champignons, on August 26, 2011 to positive reviews from critics and fans alike.
 
Breakfast of Champignons is an atmospheric, genre-bending first release. The creativity of the album is immediately apparent within the first song, The Death of Death. The EP slows down a bit in the middle with a few echo-y ballads but it picks up speed again by the last song, Spacey B. The recording of the album was in equal parts an education and an adventure, and both sides shine through in the music.

“We recorded most of the album in our basement at Graceland in between after-hours parties and Ping-Pong tourneys,” says Marmorek. “It was fun getting ideas and just rolling with them, like the hand claps in Spacey B.”
 
All the work resulted in the kind of album you want to listen to both while stargazing on a summer night or while having a singalong with your friends driving down an abandoned road. With such a successful debut, it’s looking like nothing but clear skies ahead for Sunny Pompeii and luckily the band has no shortage of ambition.
 
“We're working on a follow-up to Breakfast that should be out sometime in early 2012. There are also some avant-garde music videos on the way. But what we'd really like to get is a residency at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum.”
 
To hear Breakfast of Champignons in its entirety, visit sunnypompeii.com.