* PREORDER * JULIAN NEVER - Everyday Is Purgation LP

* PREORDER * expected to arrive late Feb / early March

Highly recommended, as was his previous album, Pious Fiction, which we cannot understand WHY it is still to be found in our racks. Featuring underground pop by the likes of Chris Spedding or Dwight Twilley meets the Flying Nun catalogue, Pious Fiction is 15 tracks of bittersweet, sun-warped jangle.

Julian Elorduy has been making music since he was fifteen, moving from the noise-soaked chaos of Mayyors to the jangling indie-pop of Fine Steps and, later, the more solitary reflections of Pious Fiction as Julian Never.

His new album, Everyday is Purgation awakens on the other side of a Dark Night of the Soul drawing on the writings of mystic, St. John of the Cross—stripping away comforting narratives in order to see what remains with a clearer, more ascetic eye. It’s Julian at his most exposed, shaped equally by the underground that raised him and the melodic pop that continues to haunt him.

"Julian Never’s jangle, all-chiming balladry power pop poetry is one of our favourite revelations in the past few months. [...]Full of heart and heat, Julian Never’s vocal is equipped with a turn of phrase reminding us a little of Jack Tatum of Wild Nothing but not afraid to bear his heart, allowing the vocal range to arch upwards into a delightful upper register."—Monorail Music