Slow Fiction return with junior year and announce Vundabar support dates

Brooklyn five-piece Slow Fiction share junior year on 8 May, their first single for indie label Tight Knit and their first major step after the 2024 EP Crush established them as one of the more exciting new bands coming out of New York. The track arrives with a video directed by Miles Wilson and a sharper lyrical frame than a simple coming-of-age title might suggest.

Singer Julia Vassallo has described the song as exploring two opposing positions: one that wants to commodify and sell, and another that wants to rebel while feeling trapped inside the machinery of objectification. That gives junior year a bite beyond its indie-rock surface.

The release also lands just as the band head out on a US tour supporting Vundabar’s 10-year anniversary run for Gawk, including dates in Burlington, Amherst, Portsmouth, Toronto, Cleveland, Chicago and beyond, before a Brooklyn hometown show at Warsaw on 19 June.