mary in the junkyard make Role Model Hermit feel feral, tender and fully formed

mary in the junkyard’s Role Model Hermit is Bandcamp Daily’s 2 July Album of the Day, and the review makes the London trio sound like a band that arrived strange and then somehow got stranger with better songwriting muscles. Clari Freeman-Taylor’s whispery voice sits at the centre, but the music around it refuses to behave: David Addison’s off-kilter drumming, Saya Barbaglia’s unruly viola and guitar parts that can swing from lullaby to angular post-punk in a flash. The album seems to preserve the volatility of early singles like Tuesday while giving the songs more polish and confidence. That is the sweet spot for a debut full-length. It does not domesticate the weirdness; it learns how to aim it. Role Model Hermit sounds young, feral, delicate and serious all at once, like dream-pop trying to crawl out through a jagged hole in the wall.

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