Today marks the release of Junior Brother‘s highly anticipated new album “The End”. Kealy is currently our Artist of the Month, and in his review of “The End”, Thomas Blake notes that, while the album covers complex subjects, “Kealy broaches them with admirable candour. He’s not scared of using specific and highly personal details to make universal points…Neither is he scared of using rawness and harshness and noise to make his point.”
To mark the album’s release, a further video from Ellius Grace has been shared for the stripped-back Old Bell, a “rickety lo-fi folk song that grapples with impending death.
Junior Brother shared: “‘Old Bell’ is a song that pushes back against the forces which pull the fit and young into a pit of no return”. The video sees Junior Brother singing in a forest, among trees which “reach for the sky but are held down by the earth that nourishes them.”
“The dark, straight road can be tough and dull, but the darkness on the other side of the ditch is darker and harder to pull away back from. As the road becomes the hill, go on with your load on your back till you reach the red sky. In any case, we must keep going until we reach the end.”
The End (September 5th, 2025) Strap Originals
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Upcoming Tour Dates
September
12 CORK The Pav Sounds From a Safe Harbour Festival Album Launch
13 DUBLIN Grand Social Club Album Launch (with support from Madra Salach)
14 DUBLIN Grand Social Club Album Launch (with support from Anenome)
20 LONDON South Bank Centre QE Hall with the Incredible String Band
21 DROGHEDA Vantastival Festival
October
10 TRALEE LASTA Festival Síamsa Tire
November
9 CLONAKILTY DeBarras Samhain Festival
14 GALWAY Róisín Dubh
15 LIMERICK Upstairs at Dolan’s Warehouse
21 DERRY Sandinos
22 BANGOR Open House Festival
23 DUNDALK Spirit Store
26 BIRMINGHAM The Victoria
27 LONDON Hootananny
28 LEEDS Hyde Park Book Club
29 MANCHESTER Gulliver’s
Tickets available at: https://www.juniorbrother.com/tour