Irish 5-piece Just Mustard who hail from Dundalk are one of the most exciting and inventive young bands around. They have their own singular vision about what shoegaze should sound like in 2022. Instead of slavishly following a template, as some nu gaze bands are wont to do, they have instead torn up the rule book and are making something that is relevant to the here and now rather than something that emerged in the 90s. And they do it quite brilliantly. Their latest track “Seed” is a menacing monolithic rumbling slice of dissonance and melody with a scything duel guitar attack and juxtaposed with Katie Ball’s ethereal vocals.
‘Seed’ is taken from their forthcoming sophomore album Heart Under – out this Friday, May 27 via Partisan. Guitarist Mete Kalyoncuoglu shares more on the song’s inspiration: “Along with a lot of electronics and noise, I was listening to a lot of music which featured bowed string instruments. I had finished reading ‘The Rest Is Noise’ by Alex Ross around the time we started writing and I was revisiting a lot of the 20th century composers that I first discovered watching Kubrick’s films, like Krzysztof Penderecki. The rising tempo strikes at the beginning of ‘Seed’ were inspired from the rising and falling xylophone in Béla Bartók’s ‘Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta’.”
Heart Under Track List
1. 23
2. Still
3. I Am You
4. Seed
5. Blue Chalk
6. Early
7. Sore
8. Mirrors
9. In Shade
10. Rivers
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See Just Mustard live in 2022:
May-27 – Rough Trade East – London, UK (in-store)
May-30 – Resident – Brighton, UK (in-store)
May-31 – Rough Trade – Bristol, UK (in-store)
June 1 – Rough Trade – Nottingham, UK (in-store)
June 2 – Jumbo Records – Leeds, UK (in-store)
June 20 – Banquet @ The Fighting Cocks – Kingston upon Thames, UK (out-store)
Jun-3 – Dublin, Ireland – The Academy
Jun-4 – Dundalk, Ireland – Spirit Store
Jun-8 – Cork, Ireland – Cyprus Avenue
Jun-10 – Berlin, Germany – Tempelhof Sounds Festival
Jun-11 – Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands, Best Kept Secret Festival
Jun-13 – Belfast, Northern Ireland – Limelight
Jun-15 – Limerick City, Ireland – Dolans Warehouse
Jun-16 – Galway, Ireland – Roisin Dubh
Jul 17 – Cologne, Live Music Hall DE*
Jul 18 – Munich, Neue Theaterfabrik DE*
Jul 20 – Berlin, Astra DE*
Jul 21 – Gruenspan, Hamburg DE*
Aug 23 – Longhorn, Stuttgart DE*
Aug 24 – Wiesbaden, Schlachthof DE*
Sept 11 – Ramsgate, Kent, England – Ramsgate Music Hall
Sept 13 – London, England – Village Underground
Sept 14 – Bristol, England – The Exchange
Sept 15 – Brighton, England – Patterns
Sep 16 – Southampton, England – The Loft
Sept 17 – Norwich, England – Voodoo Daddys
Sept 20 – Liverpool, England – Jimmy’s
Sept 21 – Nottingham, England – The Bodega Social Club
Sept 22 – Manchester, England – Band On The Wall
Sept 23 – Glasgow, Scotland – Broadcast
Sept 25 – Leeds, England – Brudenell Social Club
Oct 5 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
Oct 6 – Nijmegen, Netherlands – Merleyn
Oct 7 – Utrecht, Netherlands – Ekko
Oct 10 – Munich, Germany – Orangehouse
Oct 11 – Vienna, Austria – Das Werk
Oct 12 – Leipzig, Germany – Moritzbastei
Oct 14 – Berlin, Germany – Privatclub
Oct 15 – Hamburg, Germany – Molotow
Oct 16 – Cologne, Germany – Artheater
Oct 18 – Luxembourg, Luxembourg – Rotondes
Oct 19 – Brussels, Belgium – Botanique
Oct 21 – Paris, France – Hasard Ludique
Oct 23 – Winterthur, Switzerland – Albani Music Club
Oct 25 – Barcelona, Spain – Sidecar
Oct 26 – Madrid, Spain – Wurlitzer Ballroom
Oct 28 – Porto, Portugal – M.ou.co
*w/ Fontaines D.C.
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Just Mustard – Heart Under – out 27/05/22 on Partisan