Vinyl Record
The Drums - Jonny
The Drums - Jonny on LP vinyl. A 2023 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP · 2023
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2023 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Jonny is The Drums as a reckoning rather than a postcard from indie-pop summer. Released in 2023, the album carries Jonny Pierce's name in the title because it turns inward with unusual directness, revisiting childhood, religious pressure, queer self-recognition, family fracture and the long work of becoming honest with oneself. The Drums' familiar ingredients are still present: bright guitar lines, drum-machine pulse, beachy echoes and melodies that can seem almost weightless at first contact. But songs such as I Want It All, Better, Obvious and Plastic Envelope keep pulling that brightness toward confession, making the record feel like a diary written in neon ink. What once sounded like stylish melancholy becomes more explicit here. Jonny is not only a continuation of The Drums' aesthetic; it is a self-portrait in which the hooks expose the bruise instead of hiding it.
Jonny matters because it reframes The Drums' long-running melancholy as autobiography. Pierce uses the project's clean indie-pop language to address identity, trauma and desire with fewer masks, making the album a late clarification of what had always been glowing beneath the surface.
For collectors, Jonny is a meaningful modern Drums title because it connects the project's established sound to Pierce's most personal writing. It is especially worth noting for fans who know the early singles and want the later work where the emotional stakes are named more plainly.
Indie pop with clean guitar shimmer, programmed beats, pastel synths, lonely vocal hooks, surf-pop afterimages, diaristic lyrics and a tension between breezy surfaces and heavy private memory.
Recommended for: Collectors following The Drums beyond the early indie-pop breakthrough; Listeners who like bright arrangements with emotionally exposed writing; Fans of I Want It All, Better and confessional queer indie pop.
When was Jonny released? Jonny was released in 2023 through ANTI- Records. Why is the album called Jonny? The title points to Jonny Pierce himself, matching the album's personal focus on memory, identity and self-reckoning. Does Jonny still sound like The Drums? Yes. It keeps the project's bright indie-pop pulse and guitar shimmer, but the writing is more openly autobiographical.