Sunday Bummer
An album brought to you by Creative Vibrations Music, featuring Pete Sahaidachny
Album credits:
Pete Sahaidachny: songwriter, vocals, guitar, producer
Richard Turgeon: drums, background vocals
Wesley Kelley: bass guitar, background vocals
Jeffrey Mallow: mix engineer, mastering engineer, guitar, background vocals
Devin Farney: scoring
Very special thanks to our Kickstarter supporters!
Pete sahaidachny
Sunday Bummer was conceived and written by Pete Sahaidachny. The inspiration for the album, in addition to some profundities, is something along the lines of partying all weekend and then not wanting to go to work on Monday. But maybe there’s more to it than that?
Pete is currently based in Oregon and has been writing music for over 25 years . It’s been a true joy for him to bring this project to fruition with people that are excellent at what they do and share a passion for the music. He hopes listeners find the songs not only relatable, but that the recordings reflect the craftsmanship and enthusiasm that went into making them.
richard turgeon
Richard Turgeon is a San Francisco-based singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He recently played drums for national act Donnie Emerson and regularly plays out with his live band in the Bay Area. His music is regularly featured on SiriusXM and has been featured in indie film soundtracks. His critically acclaimed solo records from the last several years have made innumerable “best of” lists from various press outlets, radio stations and bloggers from around the world.
Visit: www.richardturgeon.com
Wes Kelley
Wesley Kelley was born and raised in Portland, OR. He started performing music professionally at 13. He played countless gigs, mostly in cover bands, around the Pacific Northwest. Later in life, Wes moved to the Philly market, where he currently lives & performs. Bass guitar is Wes’ primary instrument, but he sings, plays rhythm and acoustic guitar, and is a songwriter. Wes has performed solo gigs, been hired for studio session work, and played in various cover and original bands. Over the decades, and 1,000+ gigs, Wes has performed in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.
Jeffrey Mallow
After earning a Bachelor of Music degree from Ball State University, Jeffrey Mallow spent more than a decade in Los Angeles, CA working with and learning from many top professionals in the music industry. He has worked on independent records with a number of artists on the production side and performance side alike. His compositions have been heard on many series produced by networks such as SyFy, Animal Planet, National Geographic, MTV, Discovery, among many others.
On guitar Jeff has performed with numerous artists such as Hollywood Arson Project, Karmandan, Yeghikian, Kelli & The Shadowmen among many others. He also had the pleasure touring internationally as a guitarist with Serj Tankian (System Of A Down) various times from 2008-2014 in support of his solo work. Jeff is currently based in Málaga, Spain where he continues to produce & perform.
devin farney
Devin Farney is an active composer, multi-instrumentalist, teacher, recording artist, and producer based out of the San Francisco Bay Area.
His original music has been heard on programs such as YouTube's "Impulse", Netflix's "The Politician", HBO promos, etc. He has contributed production and underscore music to hundreds of episodes of dozens of TV shows: MTV's Catfish, HBO's Vice, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and NBA programming just to name very few. He is also no stranger to scoring, and has provided music for dozens of independent films, podcasts, etc.
Visit: www.devinfarneymusic.com
Sunday Bummer
Full Album Review
CREATIVE VIBRATIONS’ Sunday Bummer is a rich, soul-searching exploration of human vulnerability, personal evolution, and existential confrontation. In the span of thirteen lyrically packed songs, the album coheres as a dialogue between the singer and the maelstrom of modern life—a series of inner epiphanies hammered into unflinching verse. What makes the lyrics so powerful isn’t necessarily the thematic weight, but rather that they never shy away from pain and still remain optimistic, and while reaching for hope that is transcendent, remain grounded.
The title track, The Way, sets the album’s philosophical leanings right off the bat. It’s an anthem of resilience that frames life as an endless dance—ugly at times, stunning at times, always true. The “That’s what’s called livin’ / The Way!” chorus boils down to a refrain that reappears throughout the album in various shades of feeling. Sunday Bummer is more committed to holding up the act of living—all its imperfectness—than to proclaiming truth. This kind of lyrical acceptance, in which mistakes are part of the equation, anchors the album in a grown-up, empathetic worldview.
With Sunday Bummer, there’s continuity of lyrics in recurring themes of internal struggle and the necessity for reinvention. Unleash the Beast and Skeletons approach this from opposite poles: one howling with savage intensity, the other closing in on emotional accounting. But both songs struggle with the same unarticulated idea—the self is a battleground and an enigma. In Unleash the Beast, the phrase “Feed your instincts / This is what the world can be!” suggests that freedom’s not just an individual choice, but one which can reshape perception. Skeletons, by contrast, taps into quieter, hurt inferiorities, with confessions like “I wanted you / To notice me” recounting a yearning for connection left open-ended.
What’s most remarkable about the record is how often Sunday Bummer combines personal longing with cultural critique. Problems and Information Overload are both excellent examples, using repetition and biting satire to denounce a world saturated with manipulation and noise. In Problems, the circularity of “I create problems / To sell you solutions” is biting, but never blaming. Rather, it’s presented as a frustrated acknowledgment of being trapped in a cycle we’re all guilty of perpetuating. Similarly, Information Overload burns with indignation: “Cut me in the side / And watch me BLEED!” is not metaphor for pain—it’s a bare-knuckles excoriation of a system that profits off distraction at the expense of authenticity.
Even though it’s a critique of the modern state, the album never succumbs to despair.
Tracks such as Palace in the Sky and Messages offer lyrical escape routes—instances where hope is not merely possible but necessary. “Find your palace / of your design” in Palace in the Sky encourages people to construct their own haven in a world that denies them respite. It’s a powerful reversal of the bleaker moments of Sunday Bummer, encouraging us to consider where beauty and significance might still find a place. Messages extends this cosmic leap a step further in phrases such as “Strung out on a thread of light,” conjuring imagery of communication beyond language, connection beyond time.
The album also addresses identity and aging with a seldom witnessed, genuine sensitivity. Hero is one of the tracks that is most emotionally direct, the quiet tragedy of not living up to idealized visions of ourselves. “Wish I was your hero / But I’m just an ordinary guy” is not a lament, but a soft admission. Sunday Bummer sheds ego and expectation to expose the beauty of being in the moment—in all the ways we’re imperfect, aging, human. These words are familiar to all of us, most especially in a culture obsessed with performance and perfection.
That same vulnerability permeates Reel Me Back In, and that song takes the more personal, relational path. “Loneliness disconnected when I’m with you” isn’t necessarily on the surface the stuff of revolution, but within the greater context of the album’s messages, it’s balm. This song, like with Help You Through, provides connection not as solution, but as a kind of sacred reminder. They assert that the reaching out—whether as artist, friend, or lover—is in itself an act of survival.
Spirituality, or at least yearning for the metaphysical, infuses the record, particularly in Voice in Your Heart. Sunday Bummer poses abstract, wistful questions: “In the world’s bustle, did you forget who you are?” They are accusatory but loving words, which challenge listeners to pause and hear their own hearts. By identifying themselves as “a voice in your heart,” the artist stands neither as guru nor savior, but as gentle prodder—one whose job is to start inner conversation instead of dishing out quick fixes.
The album ends with the Groove Process, a song that reunites the emotional, philosophical, and musical threads. Lyrically, it’s an ode to artistic commitment and the curative power of rhythm. “This life was meant for loving you / Without the fight” reads like a final lyrical act of peace—a decision not to do away with pain, but to love in spite of it. The “Process the Groove” refrain evokes earlier mantras such as “Livin’ the Way,” creating a kind of full-circle effect in which action, feeling, and awareness meet.
Typically, the lyrics on Sunday Bummer find an uncommon balance between reflection and outreach. Sunday Bummer never flinches from the dark—regret, confusion, disillusionment, but the album is never overwhelmed by them. Instead, the lyrics gravitate toward meaning, toward connection, and toward expansion, either by cosmic metaphor or quotidian rumination. What’s constructed isn’t narrative, but a multi-dimensioned portrait of an individual endeavoring to live artfully in a broken world. By doing so, Sunday Bummer fulfills Pete Sahaidachny’s thought: no, you don’t need art to live, but this album presents a powerful argument that you need it to survive.