JUNIPERS FEATURED IN FRESH ON THE NET FAVORITES...

'Mary In the Rain' was featured as a weeks favorite on the Fresh On the Net blog as voted for by readers. Nice little write up by Poppy Bristow too: 

THE JUNIPERS – Mary In The Rain

THE JUNIPERS – Mary In The Rain

We bring our roundup to a close with something a little lighter – musically, that is. Psychedelic Leicester pop pickers The Junipers bring us 'Mary In The Rain', a melodious, multi-layered pocket symphony topped with Beach Boys harmonies.

The result sounds deliciously like if Kevin Ayers had put a bit more effort into producing his records. But don’t be fooled by such sonic sunshine. 'Mary In The Rain' is based on the true story of a circus elephant, Mary, who was hanged using a crane after she killed the man who was riding her. Plenty of pop music has put a colourful wrapper on tragedy, but rarely has the tragedy been so peculiar as it is here – nor the wrapper quite so dazzling.

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NEW JUNIPERS Single “MY IMAGINARY FRIEND” Out Now

Our latest single from our upcoming album "Imaginary Friends" is the title track of sorts "My Imaginary Friend". Its available to buy on our Bandcamp page (all proceeds help towards the vinyl pressing). OUR BANDCAMP PAGE!

The single is also available on Spotify, Apple Music etc. We also have a little lyric video on our Youtube Channel

Not really a single release. More of a last little promo teaser before the album comes out next month. Another song we've had for a while in demo form. We started recording it properly it as a band in 2017 but never finished it or released it, apart from a brief appearance in 2023 as a bonus track on our 3rd album "Red Bouquet Fair". It's now finished and will be included on our new album "Imaginary Friends". It was the first song we had for the album and inspired the idea for the albums theme and title. We liked the idea of someone who really wants a dog but can't have one because the rest of the family don't want one, so they have an imaginary dog instead that they take out for walks and roll around in fields with, pick up its imaginary shit etc.

Pre order the album "Imaginary Friends" HERE!

REVIEW FOR OUR SINGLE "ANNIE ALMOND" IN POPCORPS..

 Read the full article on Pop Corps HERE!

You may not know this, but thankfully we’re on hand to let you in on the secret – The Junipers are the greatest band in the entire world. Melding heady psychedelia, bubblegum pop and baroque rock, there’s no-one quite like them. Impossibly catchy, superbly crafted and two tonnes of fun, they’ve been hibernating for a while after a run of wondrous LPs.

Honcho Joe Wiltshire released a DIY folk-psych shed-pop masterpiece under ‘The Yellow Pegs’ and singer Robyn Gibson has been keeping himself busy with his magic Bob of the Pops releases and manning the drumstool in Portable Radio. They are once again reunited under the Junipers umbrella and all is right in the world again.

The have a new single out tomorrow called ‘Annie Almond’ (that’s July 11th if you’re reading this away from the day of publishing) and it will be available exclusively on their Bandcamp. Better news is that there’s going to be an album too at the end of August called ‘Imaginary Friends’ and we’re super excited to hear it. It’ll be available from Music | The Junipers (bandcamp.com)

The single is just as brilliant as you’d expect, filled with honey-dipped melodies and Pepperland instrumentation. Any worry that they were going to take a sharp left and begin a new drum ‘n’ bass direction is not founded. It’s beautiful, hopeful and catchy-as-hell.

JUNIPERS "ANNIE ALMOND" VIDEO PREMIERE ON SHINDIG! MAGAZINE...

The video for our new single "Annie Almond" was premiered on the Shindig! Magazine website recently. You can still read about it and watch HERE!

Shindig! Magazine wrote:

"Ahead of Leicester’s, finest band in modern times, THE JUNIPERS’ first album in eight years, Imaginary Friends, comes the new single ‘Annie Almond’.

The band say: “We’ve not done much as The Junipers for a while and it’s always nice when you realise you have enough songs to make a new album. We’ve worked on other projects like Yellow Pegs and some of us have played with Portable Radio, but no Junipers for a while now. ‘Annie Almond’ is our first single from the new album. It’s a little tune about peoples’ ideas about other peoples’ perfection. We will be releasing a second single soon and then the album, Imaginary Friends will be out by the end of August. ”