Sunshine Blind return with “Scarred but Fearless,” their first new songs in 20+ years
Caroline Blind - Sunshine Blind - Live in New York 2024 (Photo by Douglass Dresher)
U.S. goth rock outfit Sunshine Blind have just released “Scarred but Fearless”. The digital single pairs two new tracks, “Ghost of You” and “Unsinkable”, and marks the band’s first new material since the early 2000s. It follows the July drop of the archival set “Unreleased Vol 1”.
Frontwoman Caroline Blind states: “Ghost of You is basically another great driving song, the music evokes the movement and speed. Driving is often where I do all my best thinking … ‘driving as a metaphor’.” On “Unsinkable”, she adds: “It’s a rallying cry to those going through a lot of injustice (women in particular) … with the chorus of ‘We’re sick of carrying that which is not our shame’.”
About Sunshine Blind
Sunshine Blind formed in New Jersey in 1991 around vocalist/guitarist Caroline Blind and guitarist CWHK. The band later operated out of San Francisco. Early recordings in 1994 preceded their debut album “Love the Sky to Death” (Scream Records, 1995). “Liquid” followed on Energy Records (1996), and “I Carry You” arrived in 2003 on Underground, Inc. The group’s performance history includes U.S. touring with Faith and the Muse and Switchblade Symphony and festival appearances at Whitby Goth Weekend and Wave-Gotik-Treffen.
After disbanding in the mid-2000s, the live band reunited for select shows between 2010 and 2018 with drummer Geoff Bruce (also associated with Faith and the Muse/Christ vs. Warhol) and bassist William Faith (Faith and the Muse, The Bellwether Syndicate, etc.). The same lineup returned for a New York show at The Red Party in December 2024, and the founding duo resumed writing in 2023 already.
In July 2025, the band issued archival demos as “Unreleased Vol 1“.
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