S13: What are you early memories of June of 44? Supersonic is something that we’ve been really looking forward to playing, hoping that they would ask us and keep us in line for when they were actually able to do the festival again. Now that we’ve made it to 2022, we’re pretty busy – which is sweet. The reality of the matter is that all of our 2020 plans got rolled into 2021, and then we started developing 2021 plans as well, so then they got piggybacked with our 2020 plans. JM: “It was 2019 when we first heard from Lisa at Supersonic about playing, and of course we wanted to, but with the pandemic, everything kind of kept getting shoved back. Sun 13: So Supersonic isn’t that far away now… tour in 23 years, which includes an appearance at Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival in July, Mueller talks to us about June of 44’s past, present, and what the future holds.īeyond the Clouds: In Conversation with Good Night & Good Morning’s Ryan Brewer In truth, it reignited the fires lit all those years ago, reaffirming one thing: June of 44 are back. Two totally different experiences, it was so terrific to be able to play that festival on both occasions.”įollowing their successful run of shows, last year the band released Revisionist: Adaptations &Future Histories in the Time of Love and Survival: an album mainly consisting of re-workings from Anahata. And then the expansiveness of it all, it just had grown so much that it felt almost like two different things all together. “Returning in 2019, I was really surprised at how Parc Del Forum had made such a big shift, the whole geography of it, and the way the architecture of it had changed. There was no Miley Cyrus or Neil Young or any of that type of bigger music that has fully integrated and been infused into the festival now: though, we did play against Public Enemy! I think maybe there were only three or four stages for Primavera in Barcelona in 2008. “The last time I played Primavera was with Shipping News in 2008. ![]() “That was a pretty beautiful night for us, too,” admits Mueller, speaking to us over Zoom back in February from his print shop in New Haven, Connecticut. It was a night that will never be forgotten. The band welcomed in 2019 with a series of shows, including a memorable set at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound (taking the stage shortly after Liverpool Football Club had secured their sixth European Cup). The latter undoubtedly one of the finest percussionists of his generation, from the syncopated rhythms of Codeine to the blood and thunder of Enablers, June of 44 seemingly the counter-weight for his free-jazz-inspired militant blasts.Īs Mueller continued into the early noughties as the driving force of the beyond post-rock collective, Shipping News (formed in 1996 in tandem with June of 44), 2018 saw June of 44 pick up where they left off 19 years prior. Sound weaponry at its most potent, delivered with a subversive heart and an unfaltering gaze, with Mueller’s pervasive, abstract lyricism, Meadows’ fire-ball riffs, Erskin’s thumping bass lines and Sharin’s fizz-bang cannon ball shots from behind the kit. June of 44 were practitioners of the quiet/loud dynamic, but not by design. The multi-dimensional majesty of Four Great Points followed in 1998, with the outer-world sonic excursions of Anahata arriving 12 months later prior to the band calling time. And the rage continued with 1996 releases, Tropics and Meridians and The Anatomy of Sharks EP. Such consistency paved the wave for the band to produce meticulously crafted, yet impulsive music, starting with the roaring hellstorm and era-defining 1995 debut, Engine Takes To Water. One of the shiniest jewels from the crown of the Louisville underground scene, perhaps June of 44’s greatest boon was their steadfast line-up, which, to this day, remains unchanged. June of 44 created their own ungodly hurricane, with minding bending surges annexed by the Mueller’s ghostly lustre. While combing the similar terrains of Slint and (for obvious reasons) Rodan, in truth these were merely cosmetic similarities. Releasing their 1994 debut, the haphazard ball of fury in Rusty, it remains as one of the shining beacons of the post-hardcore pantheon.įollowing the release of Rusty, Rodan called it a day, and with the dust barely settled, Mueller, with Fred Erskine ( Hoover, The Crownhate Ruin, The Sorts), Sean Meadows ( The Sonora Pine, Lungfish, HiM), and Doug Scharin ( Codeine, Rex, HiM, Enablers, Mice Parade) formed June of 44. Preceding June of 44, Jeff Mueller, alongside Jason Noble (RIP), Tara Jane O’Neil, and Kevin Coultas combined as the unhinged trail-blazing unit, Rodan. We all have these bands in our lives, and from the first note of Have A Safe Trip, Dear, it was evident that June of 44 were a band that would forever occupy the bloodstream and be ingrained in the mind. Some bands have that undeniable ability to get under your skin.
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