Premiere: sundayclub Reflect on the Strange Limbo of Adulthood
Somewhere between the stillness of rural Manitoba and the neon pulse of city life, sundayclub craft the kind of dream-pop that captures growing pains in soft focus. On their debut EP Bannatyne—out October 31 via Paper Bag Records—the duo of Courtney Carmichael and Nikki St. Pierre hold a mirror to the strange limbo of early adulthood: growing up, growing apart, and learning how to love yourself through it all.
Today, we’re premiering their new single and video “Nuclear Fallout,” a shimmering and haunting portrait of emotional self-destruction. Built around Carmichael’s delicate, hypnotic vocals and a haze of synth-pop textures, the track unfolds like a countdown to detonation—each note suspended in the quiet before collapse. “Breaking apart again,” she sings, setting the tone for what feels like both confession and catastrophe.
Used more as an adjective than a noun, the word nuclear becomes shorthand for the kind of toxic chain reaction that love and insecurity can spark—something cyclical, irreversible, and painfully human. The result is a track that feels both cinematic and deeply intimate, balancing sundayclub’s penchant for nostalgia with a growing emotional sharpness.
Formed in the quiet isolation of Manitoba, Carmichael and St. Pierre began sundayclub as a way to process the in-between: who you were and who you’re still becoming. Pulling influence from Metric, Day Wave, Clairo, Alvvays, and Slowdive, the pair blend gauzy shoegaze tones with crisp indie-pop sensibilities, giving each song the intimacy of a Polaroid—imperfect, glowing, and fleeting.
The accompanying video for “Nuclear Fallout” mirrors that same tension between tenderness and unraveling. Through ethereal imagery and hazy colours, it captures the sensation of watching love implode in slow motion—beautiful even in its wreckage.
With Bannatyne, sundayclub emerge as one of Canada’s most exciting new dream-pop voices, translating the ache of coming-of-age into something achingly timeless.
Watch the video for “Nuclear Fallout” below and stream sundayclub’s debut EP Bannatyne everywhere October 31 via Paper Bag Records.
