The Junipers - The Solid and the Hollow (2026) [Hi-Res]

"Throughout, the harmonies are green and lush, and the melodies are plucked out of some perfect pop songbook, and there’s baroque, jangle pop, sensational production, DIY rough-and-readiness and all-in-all, we find ourselves bathing in the whole thing, thrilled that they’ve blessed us with an invite into their universe.

You can almost hear the perimeters of their influences expanding ever so gently, with all the usual pillars of their music present, but also, echoes of garage punk, shoegaze, and Paisley Underground’s swirly grittiness.

"This is an album worth raving about and utterly essential.."


The Solid and the Hollow is our fifth album. We started this project heading in a slightly different direction to where we ended up. As it progressed it became a kind of nostalgia trip — imagining how we would have approached music as teenagers, when so much of the 60s and indie music we now know and love was brand new to us. It made the whole process feel fresh and exciting to make.
We've actually included a song written in our teens called She Makes the Sun Shine — albeit updated and slightly different from the original — and it gave us a good springboard for the vibe we were on.
We were listening to a lot of 60s garage, 80s neo-psychedelia and early 90s shoegaze during its production, which pushed us toward a more guitar-led sound than our previous two albums. We felt we hadn't made a proper guitar album since Paint the Ground and decided it was time to get the amps out again.