mary in the junkyard – Mouse
mary in the junkyard — Clari Freeman-Taylor (vocals, guitar, cello, viola, violin), Saya Barbaglia (bass, viola, violin, backing vocals) and David Addison (drums) — release the new single, “Mouse,” from their debut album, Role Model Hermit, out July 3rd via AMF Records.
Following last month’s “New Muscles,” which was rapturously received by the likes of Stereogum, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, The Needle Drop, FADER and more, “Mouse” is the album’s affecting closing track.
A key moment on Role Model Hermit, “Mouse” fuses the band’s fantastical story telling with hard hitting themes of reconnecting with a person you abandoned in a former life. “I went to Iceland and became obsessed with the ocean. I remembered I was a fisherman in a former life with a mouse in my pocket, lost in a storm. It is about me reconnecting with the mouse when they have taken on a human form in this life.” The sense of emotion is palpable with the band creating a track that swells like tempestuous waves.
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 *
Fri. July 3 – Brighton, UK @ Resident *
Sat. July 4 – London, UK @ Rough Trade East *
Sun. July 5 – Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade Bristol *
Mon. July 6 – Nottingham, UK @ Rough Trade Nottingham*
Tue. July 7 – Liverpool, UK @ Rough Trade Liverpool *
Wed. July 8 – Leeds, UK @ Vinyl Whistle *
Thu. July 9 – Manchester, UK @ HMV Manchester *
Fri. July 10 – Glasgow, UK @ Assai Glasgow *
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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