{"product_id":"june-mcdoom-follow-the-light","title":"June McDoom - Follow The Light","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is a hush most of us only knew as children, the warm drift between familiar household sounds and being carried to bed, a place that belongs to you and to some self you have not met yet. \u003cstrong\u003eJune McDoom\u003c\/strong\u003e’s debut full-length, \u003cem\u003eFollow the Light\u003c\/em\u003e, lives in that dream space and then keeps walking, slipping out of time and waking somewhere new, barely familiar enough to feel like home yet wholly your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe came up in a Jamaican household on the edge of the Florida Everglades, an existence built of extended family, communal care, bass and harmonics. Her father, a carpenter and a student of sound, built his own speakers and kept three sound systems going across as many rooms. His low end would rise through her bedroom floor like some wayward cat while she lay above it with folk records, finding harmonies that were new and hers alone. Two musics in one room. Lushness as past and premonition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe found folk on her own, somewhere between the cast recording of \u003cem\u003eThe Sound of Music\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eSimon and Garfunkel\u003c\/strong\u003e, while everyone around her called it sleepy music. She did not mind being the only one. The solitude let her fall for harmony first, before words, before anything else, and harmony is still the thing she reaches for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGenerationally speaking, the music was already in the air. Her grandfather, Colin Smith, is a distinguished mento man who played banjo and guitar and built his own rumba boxes, worked to keep Jamaica’s oldest acoustic folk form alive. Mento is the root of all of it: ska, rock steady, reggae, dub and everything after. He is the one who put a guitar in her hands. An inheritance, a gift and a map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEven her name is part of it, though she will tell you she landed on it more by feel than reason. She records as June McDoom, born Alyssa, June being a nickname one of her grandmothers, Joan, went by, a name she thought was cool to carry and simply liked the sound of. An etheric channel that reverberates all the same. A dub all its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade slowly and by hand with her longtime partner \u003cstrong\u003eEvan Wright\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFollow the Light\u003c\/em\u003e lays the harmony of folk over the rhythm of dub, with \u003cstrong\u003eDionne Warwick\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eMinnie Riperton\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ePentangle\u003c\/strong\u003e and the washed guitars of \u003cstrong\u003eCocteau Twins\u003c\/strong\u003e haunting its outer edges. Voice and guitar seeking each other out first, then everything else stacked across long days in the studio they keep at home, restraint kept on purpose. The lead single \u003cem\u003eWithout You\u003c\/em\u003e is the whole method surfacing, split open and sparkling like a geode in a creek bed. Angelic heroics, and nothing less.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the heart is family. Her grandmother Aggie, the light behind \u003cem\u003eMemory\u003c\/em\u003e, guiding still. And underneath, the quieter truth the record keeps: none of us are only one person, but a continuum of selves, the ones who shaped us and the ones we have yet to meet. Future you is an ancestor your current self gets to greet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePress play and the same invitation is yours: A few minutes out of time, a place that turns familiar the longer you stay until you surface somewhere new and find it was yours all along.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"JAGJAGUWAR","offers":[{"title":"Limited Edition Clear Pink Vinyl","offer_id":58768609640793,"sku":"SDZ-49804","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black Vinyl LP","offer_id":58768609673561,"sku":"SDZ-49805","price":27.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":58768609706329,"sku":"SDZ-49806","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/CAR_20260804_1502_140434_992_v_0656605247533_001.jpg?v=1785857049","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/june-mcdoom-follow-the-light","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}