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Junk Son brings the musical filo pastry with ‘Crawl’
The South Londoner makes complex textural trickery sound totally effortless in today’s Neu Pick.
Every weekday, DIY’s new music know-it-all Neu brings you one essential new release to get obsessed with. Today’s Neu Pick comes from Junk Son.
South London’s Junk Son specialises in the kind of spacious, atmospheric music that makes you feel a bit like you’re running free across a mossy heath, or breathing in fresh grass cuttings at the local park. Beneath every minimal melody and punchy statement snare, there are hundreds of richly evocative textures whirring and stacking up in the background; rising synth-swells, and barely there intrusions creeping through every spare gap. But, despite being all buttery and multi-layered like musical filo pastry, it all sounds so blissful, and effortless
Junk Son’s latest track ‘Crawl’ is concerned with the world’s severely under appreciated ant population (according to the musician in his Q&A below, anyway!) and is taken from his debut self-titled EP. That’s out today (3rd June) via London label 37 Adventures.
We’ve got the first play of Junk Son’s new single ‘Crawl’ here on DIY. Listen to it below, and keep scrolling to read an interview with the musician.
Hello Junk Son! How are you today?
Real good thanks, how are you? [Good tah, how lovely of you to ask! - Ed]
Does your Junk Son moniker have anything to do with the messiness of your recording space, or are you a fairly tidy individual?
I don’t have a studio, but my bedroom where I make music is covered in fag ends, empty beer cans and other cool stuff like that… …man.
Could you tell us a little bit about what ‘Crawl’ is all about?
There’s so many more ants than people in this world, it’s about time someone started talking about it.
You’ve got your debut EP out today as well – does it feel good to have a ‘proper body of work’ out there as a musician? A good chunk of music that people can really get their teeth into.
It’s really exciting to put out four tracks that form a narrative lyrically, and great to have a cohesive statement.
Loosely inspired by your latest song title – what’s the oddest situation in which you have ever found yourself crawling? This could be anything from a drunken night out, to a small gap to overcome.
I’m going to pass this over to my friend Tom, who plays bass in the live band. He had this to say on the subject: “Once when i was a child, I was in a forest, and they were teaching us about photosynthesis and I was crawling through a giant leaf that they had built. I was playing the part of the chlorophyll, and I crawled my way all the way up the stem to the business end of the leaf, and there we photosynthesized.”
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