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Cumulus - "Sunbeam" from the 2022 album Something Brighter on Share It Music.

KEXP\\u2019s love and respect for Cumulus has been at least a decade in the making, spanning before the release of their 2013 debut I Never Meant to Be Like This. Back in 2018, our coverage of Cumulus\\u2019 sophomore record Comfort World was glowing and persistent,\\xa0and for good reason. Alexandra Lockhart (n\\xe9e Niedzialkowski)\\u2019s ability to convey a wide range of introspective feelings while keeping every single song immensely catchy is a skill few have.

At long last, Cumulus is releasing their third record Something Brighter on October 21st via Share It Music. The name is an apt representation of the tone of the record because, despite being written and recorded during the darkness of the pandemic, Lockhart\\u2019s ability to find hope and light is stronger than ever.

A big catalyst for that lightness is the love Lockhart found with her now-husband and that comes out in our Song of the Day, \\u201cSunbeam.\\u201d \\u201cWhen you\\u2019re next to me /It\\u2019s like I\\u2019m sleeping in a sunbeam,\\u201d coos Lockhart. \\u201cOh, the way you love me /It gets into my bloodstream.\\u201d It\\u2019s *almost* too sweet and pure for those of us not currently in the throes of love but also conjures hope, just knowing that Lockhart and her husband have found that.

She told Atwood Magazine this about the song:

\\u201c\\u2019Sunbeam\\u2019 is probably the purest love song I have ever written, or at least it is the first time that I have written and released a song in the throes of love,\\u201d Lockhart tells Atwood Magazine. \\u201cNot looking back longingly, not heartbroken and missing something, just in it, appreciative, feeling wrapped in safety and reflecting on all the time I spent wondering if I\\u2019d ever find it. Finding your person is such a wild journey. I come from a family of divorce, and I think I built up some walls and codependent notions in my pursuits of young love as a result, and my journey with partnership wasn\\u2019t always healthy.\\u201d

\\u201cThis is a song about the realization that when you do meet the right person, it\\u2019s not complicated. It\\u2019s easy. It\\u2019s not that it doesn\\u2019t take hard work, but it doesn\\u2019t feel like work. I also wrote this song in pandemic times, and wanted to write something to document how good this person makes me feel, how grateful I am to have them next to me.\\u201d

\\u201cSunbeam\\u201d comes with a video directed by S\\xe9bastien Deramat, of Special Explosion and Seacats, in which Lockhart and her husband lock eyes amongst a horde of animal sculptures made of driftwood. Watch the video and read the full post at KEXP.org.

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