#328
Junk Drawer– Song 3
Thursday 2nd June, 2016
They Say: “Song 3 evolved from a jam that happened after Brian (Coney) asked me to ‘play something a bit Coxon-y’. I played the intro riff and more or less everything after it came straight from whatever we heard in our heads afterwards. We recorded it live in Smalltown America studios with Caolan Austin & Chris Cassidy, who knew instinctively exactly what we were after sonically - which was a Daydream Nation-era Sonic Youth-meets-Sebadoh / Dinosaur Jr vibe.
Song 3 is the first track off our next EP, and each of the four songs veers off on its own course musically, but lyrically, they share a lot of fragments of themes that (we hope) add up to a whole over the course of the release. Without meaning to sound pretentious or angsty, it broadly comes from the sense of trying to overcome your own wiring, an inability to enjoy the moment and the sense that any attempt at maintaining integrity is just p****** in the wind."
Stevie Lennox (Guitar / Vocals)
We Say: “A track that wears its influences proudly on its sleeves, ‘Song 3’ manages to fuse self-titled-album-era-Blur stylings with J. Mascis-esque vocals.
To be undeniably overt in terms of inspiration can often make for derivative results, but thankfully this is far from the case here. Instead, Junk Drawer manage to remain very much their own beast, delivering a cool, catchy track that rewards repeated listens.”
Junk Drawer feature on the ‘A Litany of Failures’ cassette release alongside Oh Boland, Shrug Life and That Snaake, which is available now via Little L Records. All four bands play McHughs Belfast on Wednesday 8th June and Junk Drawer play Voodoo Belfast on Saturday 9th July with So Cow, Hot Cops and Shrug Life.
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