Yellow Pegs - Yellow Pegs Album Review - Shindig! Magazine - Jan 2022
While everyone and everything is on hiatus, Joe Wiltshire of Leicester psychedelic poppers The Junipers has had time to create this short, home recorded album of largely acoustic, folky material on a four-track cassette recorder. 
Stripped of his main project's usual baroque pop production, tracks do begin and often end abruptly, in improvisatory fashion, but these aren't demos - nor is Wiltshire overly reliant on the wonky lo-fi aesthetic. For one thing, the sheer amount of instrumentation on here is a cut above the usual four-track fare - acoustic guitar, bass, drums, multi-tracked voice, mellotron, celeste, harmonium, piano, the list goes on. But all are used judiciously to produce an accomplished and charming enough set of songs, none of which overstays its welcome, or really even gets comfortable at all - the 16 tracks here take up just 27 minutes. It'll be interesting to see if any get fleshed out for the next Junipers album proper.
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