Junk Drawer - Days Of Heaven (Vinyl)

The long-awaited second album from the Belfast four-piece, released June 2025 on Pizza Pizza Records and the follow-up to their award-winning 2020 debut Ready for the House. Recorded in rural Co. Wicklow with Chris W Ryan (Just Mustard, NewDad, Robocobra Quartet), it's the band's self-described attempt at weird, cosmic Ulster music, filtering The Byrds, Grateful Dead and Gram Parsons through the strangeness of life in the North.

It's a record of two halves by design. Side A delivers six short, bright, jangling pop songs, 'Pell Mell', 'Brown Sunshine' and the Casiotone-soaked 'Where Goes the Time' among them, before side B heads into the murk: longer jams, church organs, the twisted fairground lurch of 'Loughgall Circus' and 'Black Ball '85', a psychedelic ode to Dennis Taylor's 1985 World Snooker win. Nobody else on this island sounds like them.