The End, Junior Brother’s third album, is a slow, ritual unravelling that feels at once antique and disoriented. It doesn’t progress so much as it circles ad infinitum – like a distortive reel heard from behind a wall.
Co produced by Junior Brother and John “Spud” Murphy (who has worked with Lankum and ØXN), the record embodies raw acoustic textures and microscopic detail. Pipes, flute, bowed drone, harmonium, cello and percussion all emerge – defiantly stark and close mic’d. There is almost no reverb – space is created by restraint, tension, not to mention that grainy, demented voice.
This is not folk as comfort, nor even revival. It’s something more exposed and speculative – music that sits at the edges of legibility.

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