Family Scraps - Mistakes

“I’m washing myself with the mundane,” starts ‘Mistakes’ - the latest new music to come from multi-talented Leeds local MJ. Once known as the frontman of sharp-clawed psych-heads Hookworms, he’s since built up a reputation as the producer of most of your favourite new bands, too. And now, he’s plotting a debut solo album under his Family Scraps moniker; due for completion whenever he can cram a bit of studio-time into his rammed schedule.

For anyone used to hearing MJ’s vocals submerged under heaps of murk in Hookworms, Family Scraps will come as a surprising, brilliant, gear-switch. Clear and floating atop twanging shimmers of guitar, and peppy snares, ‘Mistakes’ handles pop melodies with a deft touch, mixing mournful verses of loss and regret with an overarching haze of hope. ”You’ve got heart still left, it’s true”.