Junk Drawer Share New Single, “Railroad King”
Photo by Laura MacLennan
Belfast art-rock quartet Junk Drawer are gearing up to release their new EP The Dust Has Come To Stay (out March 11 via Art For Blind Records), featuring lead single “Tears in Costa,” which arrived with a bang as one of Paste’s favorite songs of January. Now, the band have shared another track from the EP, “Railroad King,” which arrives with a video directed by Matty Killen.
Pulling inspiration from ‘60s garage rock and an eclectic mix of artists including The Cleaners From Venus, Ween and Television, “Railroad King” sees Junk Drawer place weaving guitar lines up against melodies that stick with you and sneak back up right when you think you’ve forgotten them. It’s a track that reveals itself with repeated listens, allowing new idiosyncrasies to pop up every time as you work deeper into the song’s fiber. The video is just as delightfully inventive, envisioning the band as paper dolls in a house that allows them to act out what the lyrics describe.
Band member Jake Lennox (who shares lead vocal duties on the track with his brother and bandmate Stevie) talked about “Railroad King” and how he came to write the song in a statement: