{"title":"Sun June","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"something","title":"Somewhere","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe five members of Sun June spent their early years spread out across the United States, from the boonies of the Hudson Valley to the sprawling outskirts of LA. Having spent their college years within the gloomy, cold winters of the North East, Laura Colwell and Stephen Salisbury found themselves in the vibrant melting-pot of inspiration that is Austin, Texas. Meeting each other while working on Terrence Malick’s \u003ci\u003eSong to Song\u003c\/i\u003e, the pair were immediately taken by the city’s bustling small clubs and honky-tonk scene, and the fact that there was always an instrument within reach, always someone to play alongside. Sun June returns with\u003ci\u003e Somewhere\u003c\/i\u003e, a brand new album.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s a record that feels distinctly more present than its predecessor. In the time since, Colwell and Salisbury have become a couple, and it’s had a profound effect on their work; if Years was about how loss evolves, Somewhere is about how love evolves. “We explore a lot of the same themes across it,” Colwell says, “but I think there’s a lot more love here.” Somewhere showcases a gentle but eminently pronounced maturation of Sun June’s sound, a second record full of quiet revelation, eleven songs that bristle with love and longing. It finds a band at the height of their collective potency, a marked stride forward from the band that created that debut record, but also one that once again is able to transport the listener into a fascinating new landscape, one that lies somewhere between the town and the city, between the head and the heart; neither here nor there, but certainly somewhere\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Run For Cover Records","offers":[{"title":"LP - Cloudy Clear","offer_id":50403586900299,"sku":"1105280","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP - Coke Bottle Clear","offer_id":57239014342987,"sku":"R3386-9391","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/05430954-93d8-4ee2-bad5-b31628594430_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726562060"},{"product_id":"years-12","title":"Years","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe swaying, cloud-covered reflections of Sun June began as the sideline of filmmakers working in Austin, Texas, in the late 2010s. They debuted their hushed, twang-inflected indie rock on Years in 2018. Their second album, the more fully arranged Somewhere, followed in 2021. Both then-recent graduates of colleges in the Northeast, singer Laura Colwell and guitarist Stephen Salisbury first met in Austin as editorial crew members of the Terrence Malick film Song to Song. Finding inspiration in the city's bustling music scene, where there were always instruments nearby, they formed Sun June with lead guitarist Michael Bain, bassist Justin Harris, and drummer Sarah Schultz. Recorded live to tape with co-producer Evan Kasper, their dusky debut album, Years, appeared on Keeled Scales in 2018. They followed it with Younger, an EP of Years demos and B-sides, in 2019. The group recorded their second full-length with producer Danny Reisch, who added touches of synths and percussion to already fuller band arrangements, which included Colwell on guitar for the first time. Titled Somewhere, it was released jointly by Keeled Scales and Run for Cover Records in early 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Keeled Scales","offers":[{"title":"White LP","offer_id":50522086670667,"sku":"2020958","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Sun_June__Years_e6552c50_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727998795"},{"product_id":"bad-dream-jaguar","title":"Bad Dream Jaguar","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first two minutes of Sun June’s third album, \u003ci\u003eBad Dream\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJaguar\u003c\/i\u003e, is a reverie - Laura Colwell’s voice floats above a slow-burn,sparse synth, conjuring a tipsy loneliness, a hazy recollection, a disco ball spinning at the end of the night for an empty dancefloor. Sun June’s music often feels like a shared memory – the details so close to the edge of a song that you can touch them. And as an Austin-based project, their music has also always feltstrangely and specifically Texan – unhurried, long drives acrossan impossible expanse of openness, refractions shimmering off the pavement in the heat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut on \u003ci\u003eBad Dream Jaguar\u003c\/i\u003e, Sun June is unmoored. The back drop of Texas is replaced by longing, by distance, by transience, and aquiet fear. The only sense of certainty comes from the murky past.It’s a dispatch from aging, when you’re in the strange in-betweenof yourself: there’s a clear image of the person you once wereand the places you inhabited, generational curses and our fami-lies, but the future feels vast, unclear – and the present can’t helpbut slip through your fingers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere’s a mix of hi-fi and lo-fi; some songs, like “Texas,” whichthe band had to learn at a breakneck pace ahead of their record-ing session, was recorded on a first take, live in the room, while“Eager” and “Easy Violence” feature early vocal takes from Col-well, the final songs built atop the demos. The latter track detailsstaying up all night, being a menace to society, falling into badpatterns, but is followed by “John Prine,” a drumless, piano-basedballad, a mash of pedal steel manipulated to sound closer to synths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSun June’s records have always been deceptively airy soundingin the face of melancholia, belying its densely textured founda-tion in a sense of ease. The layers on \u003ci\u003eBad Dream Jaguar\u003c\/i\u003e don’t tangle but they float, sheaths of divergent and luminescent sonics hanging together as the sun goes down, darkness seeping in.The record exists in the chasm between giving up and going all-in. And a flicker of quiet confidence powering through, a smallhopeful glow at its core. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Run For Cover Records","offers":[{"title":"Purple LP","offer_id":50971210580299,"sku":"2051271","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Bad_Dream_Jaguar_0c9b1f2b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1734098778"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/sun-june.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}