JUNK DRAWER - Days Of Heaven - LP - Vinyl

LP - Black Vinyl. 

Belfast psychedelic art-rock quartet Junk Drawer announce new album Days of Heaven for release on June 6th via Pizza Pizza Records (Just Mustard, The Altered Hours, Elaine Malone).

From bucolic origins recording the album with Chris W Ryan (Robocobra Quartet, Just Mustard, New Dad) in rural Co. Wicklow Days of Heaven is Junk Drawer’s attempt to make a work of weird, cosmic Ulster music. The four-piece took inspiration from the way Gram Parsons, The Byrds, Grateful Dead and the likes created a language and pathway for cosmic American music by drinking in what came before and spitting it out via the inherited angst of growing up in a post-war world. Sonically the band’s well-worn influences are still to be found; from the breeze of sixties West Coast LA, the pink frost of eighties New Zealand to the otherworlds of Zappa and Beefheart. Taking specific weirdo/post-punk influences from Fat White Family, Wire, Meat Puppets, Cleaners From Venus, Richard Dawson and more there is a deft agility to the four-pieces traversal of the genre.

This is most stark in the track-listing lay-out - the album is very much a light and shade record. The 6 songs on side-A are short, brighter, snappy 'pop' songs, while the second half takes you into the murk of it - more heaviness, longer jams, an entirely different side of the band. In ‘Days of Heaven’ the band’s progress is clear. On “Pell Mell” & “Nids Niteca” riffs are tighter than ever before, the lush Casiotone-infused melancholy on “Where Goes The Time” is a thing of beauty, and we’re even treated to the roar from one of Ulster sport’s finest moments in “Black Ball 85”. But scratch the surface and the world just below is where the real magic lies. This is the real trick shot of Junk Drawer.

“winding roads of guitar” -  Stereogum

“from a jangle to a roar in a heartbeat” - Brooklyn Vegan

“their warm, fuzzy indie-rock edge makes for a familiarity that does not sound stale”
- PASTE

“ethereal and lysergic” - So Young

“indulgent and affecting” - The Line of Best Fit

Tracklist: 

1. Pell Mell
2. Brown Sunshine
3. Nids Niteca
4. The Prisoner
5. Jamie
6. Where Goes The Time
7. Loughgall Circus
8. Black Ball ’85
9. Optigan 2
10. Ghosts Of Lesiure

Recorded and Produced by Chris W Ryan
Mastered by Matthew Barnhart at Chicago Mastering Service
Publishing Administered by Merge Music
Released via Pizza Pizza Records

Artwork by Paul Henderson

Junk Drawer are: Stevie & Jake Lennox, Brian Coney and Rory Dee

Live Dates with Cola & M(h)aol:
28 May – The Black Box, Belfast
29 May – Sandinos, Derry
30 May – Roisin Dubh, Galway
31 May – Dolan’s Kasbah Club, Limerick
1 June – Coughlans, Cork
2 June – Coughlans, Cork
3 June – Luca’s Records and Decks, Waterford
4 June – Whelan’s, Dublin
9 August - Under The Drum Festival