Vinyl Record
Just Mustard - Heart Under
Just Mustard - Heart Under on 2LP vinyl. A 2022 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
2LP ยท 2022
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2022 2LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Heart Under is Just Mustard's breakthrough in pressure and control, an album that makes noise-rock, shoegaze, industrial pulse, and haunted pop feel like parts of one weather system. Released in 2022, it does not chase the usual guitar-band release of tension. It often withholds it. Katie Ball's voice belongs to the music like a signal glimpsed through fog: calm, eerie, intimate, and sometimes almost swallowed by the machinery around it. The guitars scrape, shimmer, and flare; the rhythms can feel programmed even when the band is playing with live physical force; the low end gives the songs a sense of force that is closer to architecture than decoration. Tracks such as 23, Still, Seed, I Am You, and Rivers show how the group can build hooks out of atmosphere rather than simply place atmosphere around hooks. Heart Under is dark, but its real achievement is focus. Every texture feels chosen, and every beautiful moment seems to arrive with a threat attached.
The album matters because it put Just Mustard on a wider international map without smoothing away what made them strange. It is a rare modern guitar record that feels genuinely engineered from texture upward: not retro shoegaze, not standard post-punk revival, but a precise and unsettling language of its own.
This is the Just Mustard title to own if the shelf is tracking current Irish guitar music, Partisan-era independent rock, or the darker edge of modern shoegaze. It pairs well with records by Gilla Band, My Bloody Valentine, Portishead, and industrial-leaning post-punk, while still sounding unmistakably like itself.
Dark shoegaze and noise-rock with industrial low-end pressure, spectral vocals, serrated guitar texture, controlled rhythms, and a tense, cinematic sense of space.
Recommended for: Collectors following contemporary Irish alternative music; Shoegaze fans who prefer tension and abrasion over softness; Listeners drawn to dark, textural guitar albums with strong atmosphere.
Is Heart Under a shoegaze album? Shoegaze is part of the vocabulary, but the album also draws on noise-rock, industrial rhythm, post-punk tension, and unusually controlled pop structure. Why did Heart Under get so much attention? It sounded fully formed and difficult to file, with a distinctive balance of beautiful vocals, heavy texture, and disciplined sonic threat. Where should new listeners start? Still, 23, and I Am You offer a strong map of the album's contrast between melody, menace, and carefully built atmosphere.