Juniore return with new album Trois, Deux, Un

JUNIORE

Trois, Deux, Un

First album in 4 years released 13th September 2024 on Le Phonographe

Check out new single Méditerranée https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIlk-m5k788&t=0s

Pre-order album here

Returning with their first album in 4 years, Juniore have now spent a decade as the living, breathing global flag-bearers for neo-sixties french-indie cool.

Brought together by their “common passion for the melodies and sounds of the 60's and their lashing echo in music and film and art and fashion”, songwriter/vocalist/keyboardist/guitarist Anna Jean alongside Swanny Elzingre (drums/vocals) and Samy Osta (producer/everything else), have so enchantingly re-imagined the flame burnt by francophonic cultural giants of years gone by - 60s Yéyé singers, by the likes of Michel Legrand, Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Bardot - and like those greats, have revived their timeless appeal to a global audience..

New single out today ‘Méditerranée’, with it’s honky-tonk pianos and bubblegum backing vocals, is a song “which is really only about describing the topless ladies at the beach in the south of France, their freedom and carefreeness.”; you can almost feel that soothing coastal breeze cooling your skin as you listen, such is its rococo dream-pop wonder. You can check it out here 

And in many ways, the band’s third studio album to date is ultra-slick business as usual. Trois, Deux, Un, following that style that the band have made their own, channels those aforementioned French classics through the hyperactive lens of B-52s New Wave and 60s American garage-rock. A good portion of the record simply swaggers across its sonic spaces, cloaked in the kind of smokey, romantic mystery that many a Quentin Tarantino film soundtrack has made its iconic currency.

So far, so certain. Yet, while much of Juniore’s musical identity remains as strongly defined as ever, flavouring Trois, Deux, Un is also a drive towards a brighter optimism, and a feeling that their music always couldn’t be so darkly mysterious as before. And by necessity rather than choice. Taking three and half years to write, the band were “greatly” affected by the forced isolation of the pandemic,and how the family-bonds they had built through years of living in each other’s pockets on the road were totally severed across those long months. Having to adapt, for instance, of living, writing, and recording apart, within this topsy-turvy world, the band took the title for their new album by reversing the counting process of its predecessor Un, Deux,Trois; Juniore here are self-consciously negotiating their musical space, with all its’ foundational parts intact,  but yet flipped totally turned upside down.

“The one thing we've probably allowed ourselves to do is to write more joyful music”, Anna Jean admits. “We feel it's a bit like we've travelled to the other side of the mirror, and we're trying to set the clock backwards in a sense with Trois Deux Un or maybe just preparing ourselves for take off.” she continues,““the new songs couldn't be as comedic and dark as the previous ones wanted to be” she continues, “they had to be lighter because the world had enough real heaviness.”

UK Tour Dates:

Friday 30th August Brighton Psychfest

Saturday 31st August Manchester Psychfest

Sunday 1st September Edinburgh Psychfest

Wednesday 4th September Lafayette, London