Jejune make Wait a Lifetime feel like emo history opening its old notebooks

Jejune’s Wait a Lifetime lands on 19 June via Numero Group, and that label name immediately signals that this is not just another reissue tossed into the calendar. Numero has a gift for making the past feel newly audible, and Jejune are exactly the kind of band whose emotional temperature benefits from being revisited outside the narrow nostalgia machine. Their place in emo and indie-rock history belongs to the era when the genre was still learning how to turn fragile feeling into guitar language without becoming formula. Wait a Lifetime is a perfect title for archival listening too. Some bands need time before their influence fully becomes visible. Some records become clearer when the scene they helped shape has already mutated several times. Jejune’s return to the shelf is a reminder that emo’s old notebooks still have useful mess in the margins.

Source: https://pitchfork.com/news/new-album-releases/