Sun Araw

Infobox musical artist name = Sun Araw image = SunAraw.jpg

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caption = Performing live in March 2011 birth_name = Cameron Stallones native_name = native_name_lang = alias = Prince Sunarawma, Aristocrat P. Child, DJ Si Si Si Gracias birth_date = birth_place = Austin, Texas, United States origin = Austin, Texas, United States death_date = death_place = experimental Stallones was associated with the Not Not Fun record label, and released his debut album, The Phynx, in February 2008. This was followed by the release of a second album, Beach Head, in July of the same year. He has been prolific since then, having released fourteen subsequent albums between 2009 and 2024. Stallones also collaborated with Pocahaunted on the Passage album. Sun Araw and The Congos also performed live together.

Name Araw is a Tagalog word meaning 'sun' or 'day', depending on context, meaning Stallones' stage name literally translates to sun sun. However, as Stallones recounted to LA Weekly, he considers his name to mean "sun day", which is a pun referring to Sunday, and more specifically the Christian Sabbath day. Therefore, Stallones considers his stage name to mean "sacred rest", despite "rest" not being one of the meanings of araw. One justification for this he provided was that he participates for a time in many bandsbut his one man show Sun Araw is something he can always rely on when he takes a break from other music projects.

Musical style His 2010 album Off Duty was described by Allmusic writer Gregory Heaney as "pulsing, Krautrock-influenced retro-futuristic lo-fi." Critics David Keenan and Simon Reynolds grouped him with an early wave hypnagogic pop artists who emerged in the late 2000s. Jon Pareles, writing for The New York Times, described Sun Araw's music as "a happy jungle of electronic repetition and live playing. Loops and echoes reconfigured reggae, funk and Afrobeat in dizzying ways; the music cackled and hopped, ready to trip up dancers or just get trippy in decidedly 21st-century groove".

His style has been characterized as experimental, containing "sampled loops, echoed vocals, bursting bass, and random moments". His music has also been described as "neo-dub" and "psych-rock".

With releases like Icon Give Thank in 2012, it is described by Andy Beta of Pitchfork as a "psychedelic gospel album". Furthermore, tracks like "Thanks and Praise" are described as "beyond dub, dancehall, roots, (his previous release) Ancient Romans, never really sounding like... the aforementioned genres". The tracks "Horse Steppin" and "Deep Cover" were featured in the 2012 video game Hotline Miami. Sun Araw stars in the 2013 short film Chapel Perilous, written and directed by Matthew Lessner, which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.