Junk Drawer detail their forthcoming second album, Days of Heaven

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On the first single taken from the record, "Nids Niteca", they say: "There was this empty shopfront we constantly drove past that said 'NIDS NITECA' in bold red on the way back from practice in the centre of Belfast. We realised it was this whole topic of conversation from everyone who passed it in town, and no one seemed to ever remember it being open. It began as a sort of rumination on that, a tribute to this little in-joke that exists to a specific type of Belfast person, but really is about the meaning and decay of these structures and the sort of associations that get drawn to them, and how it all exists as much mentally in this hilarious fucking mess of a localised consciousness, that will be forgotten in time."

"I think a lot of it is about the lost promised futures that Ulster could have had-cross-community new towns, the decay that's replaced it here, how I see the same thing happening in the middle east; how these memories are being erased, and so much of the history of this place exists within the silence of our fathers," the say of the forthcoming release.

"How my generation has tried to heal by replacing those lost ideals by clinging to old objects, time in nature, the moments we've spent together connecting as people at 4am, where you feel like you might have discovered the point of it all. A brief moment in 1985 where a country united over a bespectacled man from Coalisland winning the snooker. Whatever it is, I think our music has maybe always been about peace, and where you can find it."

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