Just Mustard - Heart Under [Deluxe 2LP]

Partisan Records

£36

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: PTKF3019-8
Barcode: 0720841301981
Release Date: 04 Nov 2022
Genre: Indie/Alternative

 Just Mustard’s ‘Heart Under’ is now available as a deluxe double LP on 45rpm black vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve with obi strip. Includes art print and lyric book.
 ‘Heart Under’, Just Mustard’s second album and first for Partisan Records (IDLES, Fontaines D.C., Laura Marling), is an album that asks you to forget what you know. At every turn, this remarkable record reconfigures and stretches the ideas and ambition of a rock band and turns a year of lockdown and personal struggles into a breath-taking artistic statement.
 Across its 10 tracks, the album presents a coherent style and ethos - those scything guitars, Katie’s magical vocals - but still incorporates a wide and untethered vision. There are brooding, atmospheric rock songs (‘Still’, ‘In Shade’) and others that apply a lighter, dreamier touch (‘Sore’, ‘Mirrors’), all tied together with impeccable instrumentation and a united vision.
 On debut ‘Wednesday’, the band played with dreamier soundscapes and production techniques, and ‘Heart Under’ serves as the next stage of this development, with every instrument brilliantly pushed to its limit and every boundary of the band stretched.
 After the band had finished recording and producing the album, ‘Heart Under’ was pushed even further into singular territory when the band worked with mixer David Wrench, whose previous collaborators include Frank Ocean, Let’s Eat Grandma, Jamie xx, FKA twigs and beyond. “We wanted someone who had done pop and electronic records and didn’t just work within rock
music,” Katie says.
 “Thrillingly untraditional” - NME (★★★★★)  “[A] noisy, wonderfully chaotic record” - The Telegraph (★★★★★)  “Moments of atonal abandon are immersive and bewildering, turning every
song into a funhouse mirror” - Pitchfork (7.7)  “‘Heart Under’ will leave listeners still struggling to grasp exactly where they
can place such a distinctive and experimental sound” - Rolling Stone
 Supported Fontaines D.C. on their European and US tours this year. They were handpicked by Robert Smith to support The Cure in Dublin in 2019.
 Eire headline tour in June, UK headline tour in September, including Village Underground, and EU headline tour in October.
 Choice Music Prize nomination for Irish Album Of The Year for their debut album, ‘Wednesday’.
 Radio - 6 Music Gideon Coe, Steve Lamacq, The Mysterines, SCALPING, Fontaines D.C. (takeover), NTS (guest show).
 Press - Reviews in Pitchfork, MOJO, DIY, Dork, Loud And Quiet, The Line Of Best Fit.

Tracklisting
23
Still
I Am You
Seed
Blue Chalk
Early
Sore
Mirrors
In Shade
Rivers