Follow The Light
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June McDoom’s debut full-length, Follow the Light, lives in a dream space and then keeps walking, slipping out of time and waking somewhere new, barely familiar enough to feel like home yet wholly your own. She was brought up in a Jamaican household on the edge of the Florida Everglades, an existence built of extended family, communal care, bass and harmonics. Her father, a carpenter, built his own speakers and kept three sound systems going across as many rooms. She found folk on her own, somewhere between the cast recording of The Sound of Music and Simon and Garfunkel, while everyone around her called it sleepy music. The solitude let her fall for harmony first, before words, before anything else, and harmony is still the thing she reaches for. Generationally speaking, the music was already in the air. Her grandfather, Colin Smith, is a distinguished mento man who played banjo and guitar and built his own rumba boxes, worked to keep Jamaica’s oldest acoustic folk form alive. Mento is the root of all of it: ska, rock steady, reggae, dub and everything after. He is the one who put a guitar in her hands. An inheritance, a gift and a map. Even her name is part of it, though she will tell you she landed on it more by feel than reason. She records as June McDoom, born Alyssa, June being a nickname one of her grandmothers, Joan, went by, a name she thought was cool to carry and simply liked the sound of. An etheric channel that reverberates all the same. A dub all its own.
Made with her longtime partner Evan Wright, Follow the Light lays the harmony of folk over the rhythm of dub, with Dionne Warwick, Minnie Riperton, Pentangle and the washed guitars of Cocteau Twins haunting its outer edges. At the heart is family. Her grandmother Aggie, the light behind “Memory,” guiding still.
Released: October 2026
Cat: JAG475LP-C1
Label: Jagjaguwar
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Tracklist
SIDE A
1. Human Angel
2. Without You
3. Outside The Window
4. Forever
5. Get Out Of My Life
6. Grandpa
SIDE B
7. Dream Dub
8. Memory
9. Mountain
10. Searching To Find
11. Weaver
12. Follow The Light