Radio 4 have been running a series of programs this year re-evaluating 1968; I bet The Junipers haven't missed many. In the world of these Leicester cosmic pop sprites, The Notorious Byrd Brothers is forever spinning on the gramophone and the studes are in a state of perpetual forment. If only The Junipers themselves were similarly formented. The nearest they come to dreaded modernity is Sheena which draws its inspiration from noted envelope pushers The La's. Elsewhere, the likes of Gordie Can't Swim and Mortimer Snerd push fearlessly forth into a place where Maxwell's Silver Hammer still clangs away joyously.
