View basket “The Deep End Volume 2” has been added to your basket. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of The Just Joans Just Joans, The SKU: FIKA077LP Barcode: 5057805017127 16.00 £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fika Recordings Released Date: 17th January 2020 Buying Format: 1LP Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Acerbic yet winsome Scottish indiepoppers The Just Joans return with the dazzlingly maudlin The Private Memoirs and Confessions of the Just Joans, a deeply personal collection of songs that hazily recall the past and contemplate the futility of the future. A titular twist on the classic gothic horror novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by compatriot James Hogg, the new album is the follow-up to 2017’s You Might Be Smiling Now… and contains the kind of melodies and mockery that led Uncut to class the band as the point at which “Stephin Merritt lies down with The Vaselines.” At the forefront remain the mischievous lyrics and heartfelt vocals of siblings David and Katie Pope, aided and abetted by Chris Elkin on lead guitar, Fraser Ford on bass guitar and Jason Sweeney on drums. Yet it is the recruitment of multi-instrumentalist Arion Xenos and guest appearance of Butcher Boy’s Alison Eales to arrange strings that have helped elevate the band’s music to new heights. Their progression is most noticeable on lead single “Dear Diary, I Died Again today”, a painfully beautiful admission of everyday anxiety and “When Nietzsche Calls”, the triumphant cry of a spurned lover revelling in the misery of their ex to a backdrop of trumpets and violins. The juxtaposition of the fragility shown in these tracks with the menace of “Wee Guys (Bobby’s Got A Punctured Lung)” – an observation and understanding of the casual violence that once cast a shadow over the band’s hometown – highlights The Just Joans’ ability to seamlessly flip between sensitivity and danger, and sums up why Highway Queens described them as the “perfect Glasgow kiss.” The Private Memoirs and Confessions of the Just Joans is a veritable smorgasbord of misery, longing and unrequited love; stories of small town resentments, half-forgotten school friends, failing relationships and awkward workplace conversations. As David explains: “It’s a collection torn from the pages of the diary I haven’t kept over the past 25 years. There are songs about places and people I vaguely remember, feelings I think that I once may have felt and the onset of middle-aged ennui.” Despite entering new territory with the addition of brass and strings, they have nevertheless maintained the DIY ethos that made them darlings of the underground indie-pop scene, with each song on the album recorded and produced by the band in various gloomy bedrooms around Glasgow. “The Just Joans have documented the romantic pratfalls of a generation of indie kids with a sardonic wit and a shambling musical style where Stephin Merritt lies down with The Vaselines” Uncut “lyrically smart, funny, and terrifyingly relatable” The Skinny “a sharper, on-the-nose take on indie pop, proving the Just Joans may be older, but, in their own whimsically nostalgic way, perhaps no wiser, and for that we can only be glad” The List Artist Just Joans, The Genre Rock And Pop Label Fika Recordings Buying Options 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings Hey Ho, Let’s Not Go Who Does Susan Think She Is? Wee Guys (Bobby’s Got a Punctured Lung) My Undying Love For You Is Beginning To Die When Nietzsche Calls The Older I Get, The More I Don’t Know The One I Loathe The Least Another Doomed Relationship Holiday People I Once Knew Like Yesterday Again Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Rock And Pop Nearly New View Product Quick View Avett Brothers, The Magpie And The Dandelion Rock And Pop | American Recordings | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 17th November 2021 £18.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Avett Brothers, The Magpie And The Dandelion £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: American Recordings SKU: nn233408 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 17th November 2021 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Who, The BBC Sessions Rock And Pop | Polydor | 2LP Released 14th February 2000 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Who, The BBC Sessions £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Polydor SKU: 5477271 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 14th February 2000 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Holy Ghost! 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