Junk Drawer are Brian Coney (bass/keys), Rory Dee (drums/guitar/vocals) and siblings Stevie (vocals/guitar) and Jake Lennox (vocals/guitar/drums). Their second album Days Of Heaven (Pizza Pizza Records, 2025) adds new levels of depth and clarity to an already signature sound.

Following their critically acclaimed debut album Ready For The House (Art For Blind, 2020) and 2022’s crucial stepping-stone EP The Dust Has Come To Stay, Days of Heaven is very much the product of four crate-digging music lovers with open ears and a genuine open-minded approach in their process. It is also the outworkings of rural Ulster strangeness, the province’s many lost futures, and the harmony & discordance of a sibling creative partnership. A potent cocktail.

Recorded over seven days at The Meadow Studios in Wicklow with producer Chris Ryan (Robocobra Quartet, Just Mustard, NewDad), Days Of Heaven underlines a new moment for the band - one of deep understanding of each other and a sublime confidence in their craft. This is a band who have reached maturity without losing any of that “early-stuff” magic.

“We’ve become more confident with time. We’ve grown to be more of an entity. While the different prominent influences are still there from each member, it all sounds more like us now.” With regards lyrics and inspiration, Stevie is “past the inward-looking thing that I was at on the first album” and has become much more interested in what it means to be an Ulsterman; a term that has been confused, misused, and seldom understood. This exploration of identity is helped along by psychedelic means, be they chemical, sound, meditation… snooker. This has led to an almost “group-think” understanding within the band.

Thomas Dolby

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