mary in the junkyard – Blood
mary in the junkyard — Clari Freeman-Taylor (vocals, guitar, cello, viola, violin), Saya Barbaglia (Bass, viola, violin, backing vocals) and David Addison (drums) — release their debut album, Role Model Hermit, this Friday, July 3rd via AMF Records.
Role Model Hermit has already received praise from major publications in the US and UK, with Rolling Stone naming the band an “Artist You Need To Know” and hailing the album as “one of 2026’s most fascinating indie debuts,” and Uncut claiming the album “masters the grandiose as triumphantly as the understated.”
Leading into Friday’s album release, mary in the junkyard now unveil “Blood,” a sinuous and punchy track highlighting the band at their most lean and vital.
The song is wrapped around a spider-like guitar figure from Freeman-Taylor with Addison and Barbaglia providing artful rhythmic and melodic counterpoints. It’s based on Freeman-Taylor’s experience of newfound love. Barbaglia says, “I know Clari so well that I could feel the change within her; this vocal could have only been recorded in that moment.”
Role Model Hermit is a collection of dark fables, intricate melodies and moments of revelation. mary in the junkyard wrote the album between the UK and US and recorded it in London during the summer of 2025 with producer Oli Bayston (Boxed In). Throughout its runtime, the album walks the line between fact and fiction with a real sense of bite and moments of poignancy, while always creeping into the phantasmagoric.
Last month, mary in the junkyard played a run of co-headline dates with Dove Ellis at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles and the Bowery Ballroom in New York City. They will play several in-store performances in the US and UK around the album release, and tour North America this fall, making stops in cities they have yet to headline.
mary in the junkyard Tour Dates
Thu. July 2 – Kingston, UK @ Banquet Records * SOLD OUT
Fri. July 3 – Brighton, UK @ Resident * SOLD OUT
Sat. July 4 – London, UK @ Rough Trade East * (Matinee)
Sat. July 4 – London, UK @ Rough Trade East * (Evening) SOLD OUT
Sun. July 5 – Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade Bristol * SOLD OUT
Mon. July 6 – Nottingham, UK @ Rough Trade Nottingham * SOLD OUT
Tue. July 7 – Liverpool, UK @ Rough Trade Liverpool *
Wed. July 8 – Leeds, UK @ Vinyl Whistle * SOLD OUT
Thu. July 9 – Manchester, UK @ HMV Manchester *
Fri. July 10 – Glasgow, UK @ Assai Glasgow *
Fri. Sept. 11 – Groningen, NL @ Vera
Tue. Sept. 22 – Dublin, IRE @ The Grand Social
Wed. Sept. 23 – Belfast, NI @ Ulster Sports Club
Fri. Sept. 25 – Edinburgh, UK @ Cabaret Voltaire
Sat. Sept. 26 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
Sun. Sept. 27 – Birmingham, UK @ Hare and Hounds
Tue. Sept. 29 – Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
Wed. Sept. 30 – London, UK @ Heaven
Thu. Oct. 1 – Bristol, UK @ Exchange
Fri. Oct. 2 – Hitchin, UK @ Club 85
Mon. Oct. 5 – Paris, FR @ La Bellevilloise
Tue. Oct. 6 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique – The Rotonde
Wed. Oct. 7 – Rotterdam, NL @ Rotown
Thu. Oct. 8 – Amsterdam, NL @ Bitterzoet
Mon. Nov. 2 – Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon
Wed. Nov. 4 – San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
Fri. Nov. 6 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
Sat. Nov. 7 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza
Tue. Nov. 10 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry
Wed. Nov. 11 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
Fri. Nov. 13 – Toronto, ON @ The Garrison
Sat. Nov. 14 – Montreal, QC @ Petit Campus
Wed. Nov. 18 – Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right
Fri. Nov. 20 – Washington, DC @ DC9
Sat. Nov. 21 – Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA
* In-Store Performance
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