New Music Review - ‘Show Me The Way’ the album by Sun Veins
Show Me The Way was released on the 17th March 2023 and is the final offering from Sun Veins. PC: Sun Veins EPK, provided by Dane Oates.
Right out of the Dunedin sunshine emerges Sun Veins, who have recently dropped their highly awaited album, Show Me The Way before they decided to actually part ways and work on different aspects of their careers separately.
While it is a shame to see the work that the legends from Sun Veins have worked on for five years come to an end, Show Me The Way is a final piece of art that will last forever.
The ten-track album is an integral part of the Dunedin music scene to come out in the past couple of years, proving that the sole focus of what happens down South isn’t just all partying and setting couches alight.
Sun Veins have put their complete souls into flexing their talents for their farewell and it really comes across structurally sound through the entirety of Show Me The Way.
Starting the record strong, Sun Veins decided to do a re-release of their much-loved song, I Wanna Know, which turns up the vibe a whole other notch, creating this ultra special movement of the song, allowing listeners to take it in from a differing perspective to what we were entitled to from the first release. It’s quite the catchy tune that your ears will lap up immediately. It utilises more acoustic elements to enlighten the tune to another level.
A personal favourite of mine from the album is the indie-jam, Escape, which allows you to jump into the waves of the ocean that Sun Veins create. The track features Ed and the Shadow Boys, which turns it into this super-epic collaboration that puts this bright spark into Show Me The Way. It has this rhythm that holds its own with this depth that goes deeper than that metaphorical ocean floor mentioned above. Escape has this entertainment of being so crucial to the album that it gives your skin these insane goosebumps. When a song takes over and does that, you know it is without a doubt, a piece that will stick with you.
Tracks such as Needy will have you feeling like you are listening to a cross between 48May x The Butlers. A bit of a mix from mid-2000s tones and indie music now. Needy is reminiscent of a sweetly lit summer evening underneath the beauty of the sunset. A feeling of a first date through to the end of a situation-ship. This is the type of track that Needy reminds me of and it has a lot of oomph in it.
As mentioned above, Sun Veins have done a couple of re-releases on Show Me The Way, which allows the journey of how they have paved the path they have made, adapting their musical skills over the years from the first release of the tunes until now. I enjoy when artists take the time to indulge audiences with a second take on their own music later down the line.
Sun Veins stripping down the re-releases, making them even more delectable than they previously were, adds this twinge of an unexpected gift to Show Me The Way.
Other pieces that were delicately placed onto Show Me The Way include the seductive hit Little While (With The Lights Out) which you can read a review of right here, The Cover, among some other tracks that will make you think, woah, I wish Sun Veins weren’t ending their career as a band. However, this is a good reminder that while Sun Veins have seized, that music lives for eternity. It never dies.
Here are the links to Sun Veins’ socials, if you would like to check them out in the hopes of them reforming later down the line -