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Dundalk, Ireland 5-piece Just Mustard have shared new track ‘Seed’ taken from their forthcoming sophomore album Heart Under – out this Friday, May 27 via Partisan. ‘Seed’ is a dark and dangerous album highlight that showcases the band’s more experimental side – the rhythm section bordering on techno, anchoring revving twin guitars that sound as though they’re feeding back from the underworld

Guitarist Mete Kalyoncuoglu shares more on the song’s inspiration: “Along with a lot of electronics and noise, I was listening to a lot of music which featured bowed string instruments. I had finished reading ‘The Rest Is Noise’ by Alex Ross around the time we started writing, and I was revisiting a lot of the 20th-century composers that I first discovered watching Kubrick’s films, like Krzysztof Penderecki. The rising tempo strikes at the beginning of ‘Seed’ were inspired from the rising and falling xylophone in Béla Bartók’s ‘Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta’.”

Listen to ‘Seed’ – BELOW:

Just Mustard just wrapped up a worldwide tour with Fontaines DC after being one of the most talked-about bands at SXSW in March (“There’s simply no precedent for much of what Just Mustard is bringing to Shoegaze” – Austin Chronicle). The band will continue to tour throughout 2022.

The cover artwork for ‘Heart Under’ is an original work by internationally renowned English artist Graham Dean, who has previously collaborated with Peter Gabriel.

Heart Under was primarily recorded at Attica Studios in rural Donegal (Ireland), was produced by the band and mixed by David Wrench (Frank Ocean, Let’s Eat Grandma, Jamie xx, FKA twigs and beyond). The title, Heart Under, comes from the lyric “the heart under its foot” from album track ‘Sore’, and throughout recording the band discussed the idea of wanting the listener to feel like they’re on a train going through a tunnel or being pulled by an anchor to the bottom of the sea.

See Just Mustard live in 2022:

May-27 – Rough Trade East – London, UK (in-store)
May-30 – Resident – Brighton, UK (in-store)
May-31 – Rough Trade – Bristol, UK (in-store)
June 1 – Rough Trade – Nottingham, UK (in-store)
June 2 – Jumbo Records – Leeds, UK (in-store)
June 20 – Banquet @ The Fighting Cocks – Kingston upon Thames, UK (out-store)

Jun-3 – Dublin, Ireland – The Academy

Jun-4 – Dundalk, Ireland – Spirit Store

Jun-8 – Cork, Ireland – Cyprus Avenue

Jun-10 – Berlin, Germany – Tempelhof Sounds Festival

Jun-11 – Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands, Best Kept Secret Festival

Jun-13 – Belfast, Northern Ireland – Limelight

Jun-15 – Limerick City, Ireland – Dolans Warehouse

Jun-16 – Galway, Ireland – Roisin Dubh

Jul 17 – Cologne, Live Music Hall DE*

Jul 18 – Munich, Neue Theaterfabrik DE*

Jul 20 – Berlin, Astra DE*

Jul 21 – Gruenspan, Hamburg DE*

Aug 23 – Longhorn, Stuttgart DE*

Aug 24 – Wiesbaden, Schlachthof DE*

Sept 11 – Ramsgate, Kent, England – Ramsgate Music Hall
Sept 13 – London, England – Village Underground

Sept 14 – Bristol, England – The Exchange
Sept 15 – Brighton, England – Patterns

Sep 16 – Southampton, England – The Loft
Sept 17 – Norwich, England – Voodoo Daddys
Sept 20 – Liverpool, England – Jimmy’s
Sept 21 – Nottingham, England – The Bodega Social Club
Sept 22 – Manchester, England – Band On The Wall
Sept 23 – Glasgow, Scotland – Broadcast
Sept 25 – Leeds, England – Brudenell Social Club

Oct 5 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso

Oct 6 – Nijmegen, Netherlands – Merleyn
Oct 7 – Utrecht, Netherlands – Ekko
Oct 10 – Munich, Germany – Orangehouse

Oct 11 – Vienna, Austria – Das Werk
Oct 12 – Leipzig, Germany – Moritzbastei
Oct 14 – Berlin, Germany – Privatclub
Oct 15 – Hamburg, Germany – Molotow
Oct 16 – Cologne, Germany – Artheater
Oct 18 – Luxembourg, Luxembourg – Rotondes
Oct 19 – Brussels, Belgium – Botanique
Oct 21 – Paris, France – Hasard Ludique
Oct 23 – Winterthur, Switzerland – Albani Music Club
Oct 25 – Barcelona, Spain – Sidecar
Oct 26 – Madrid, Spain – Wurlitzer Ballroom
Oct 28 – Porto, Portugal – M.ou.co

*w/ Fontaines D.C.

1. 23

2. Still

3. I Am You

4. Seed

5. Blue Chalk

6. Early

7. Sore

8. Mirrors

9. In Shade

10. Rivers