London’s Uncle Junior Share New Single ‘Sardines’.
“Should I open another tin?” screams Oli Noble at the height of ‘Sardines’. It’s the only hint on the track of the noise that Uncle Junior have been delivering at their raucous live shows across London. Instead, ‘Sardines’ is slower and more brooding than the frantic energy that possesses them live; it reflects on the end of a relationship, before realising where it all went wrong, and longing for it all over again. Quite a bit to pack into three minutes.
Yes, all the typical influences are there, and it’s nothing you haven’t heard before from a London post-punk band, but Uncle Junior do avoid the tendency of throwing noise at a track and hoping that does the job; here they lean into their songwriting and let it come to the fore. The result is a familiar and vulnerable offering that lives in its own yearning, with a hint of a bigger racket to come.
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