Mary in the Junkyard: Role Model Hermit (indie exclusive, transparent clear vinyl) [AMF]

Why you'll love it

The debut album from the London trio of Clari Freeman-Taylor, Saya Barbaglia and David Addison, produced by Oli Bayston and Ben Baptie. Paste called it "as imaginative as it is eclectic", and it arrives after tours supporting Wet Leg in the US and plenty of BBC 6 Music airplay.

This edition

• Indie exclusive
• Transparent clear vinyl
• 11 songs

About the album

Freeman-Taylor's fragile voice sits on top of arrangements that lurch from viola and harmonium to trip-hop beats and the odd burst of metal. Lead single "Crash Landing" is about fear and how men keep their emotions locked away; "Mouse" tells the story of a reincarnated fisherman, and the cover finds Clari in a past life as a sailor.

It follows their 2024 EP This Old House and takes their dark little fables somewhere much bigger. Strange, tender and loud in the right places, which is about all you can ask of a debut.

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Tracklist

1. Mantra III
2. Blood
3. Seek And Destroy
4. New Muscles
5. Myrtle
6. Peter The Dog
7. Crash Landing
8. Welcome Break
9. Candelabra
10. Thou Shalt Sprout
11. Mouse

On AMF.