June McDoom grew up in a Jamaican household in Florida, and her family was a musical one. Her father was a DJ and carpenter who built his own speakers and multi-room sound systems — she grew up hearing amplified basslines from his DJ sets through the floor — and her grandfather was a mento musician who built his own rumba boxes and gave June her first access to a guitar. While her own music takes further influence from everything from 1960s and ’70s folk-pop and pop-soul to Cocteau Twins, the significance of mentioning her upbringing becomes evident upon hearing her unusual spin on eerie indie folk. She landed on Jagjaguwar’s roster on the strength of early short-form releases, and she constructed Follow the Light, her full-length debut,…

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