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Junior Brother - No Country For Young Men
No Country For Young Men, the new single from Junior Brother, is out on 9th February on Strange Brew. It will be available on all your digital yokeys, as well as limited edition gold 7” backed with a vinyl only exclusive B-Side. Pre-order now from strangebrew.ie and juniorbrother.com
"I wrote this song in response to the tangible feeling of dread and anxiety I felt across Dublin city during my first few months living there. Increasingly hostile and violent evictions, police complicity in such acts, the housing crisis in general, among other factors seemed to cultivate a distrust of authority, particularly in the youth of the country. The day after a police-backed violent eviction of peaceful protestors from an abandoned house in North Frederick Street, Dublin, I stood with many others my age outside the empty house, and remarked upon seeing the photograph of the balaclava'd police next to the thugs dressed in all black that you couldn't tell the goons from the guards. I joined the dots between this line of inquiry and the expectations of masculinity in society, which in turn led me around to posit the notion that a better society does not come quick, and before things change, this future must "wait like a woman", in hope and frustration.”
