Mary In The Junkyard’s final single is about a fisherman in a former life with a mouse in his pocket.

Mary In The Junkyard have shared ‘Mouse’, the closing track of their debut album Role Model Hermit, due 3rd July via AMF Records.

The song inspired the album’s artwork and is, in Clari Freeman-Taylor’s own words, the product of an Iceland trip, a fixation on the ocean and the memory of a former life. “I went to Iceland and became obsessed with the ocean,” she has said. “I remembered I was a fisherman in a former life with a mouse in my pocket, lost in a storm. It is about me reconnecting with the mouse when they have taken on a human form in this life.” That description is not a metaphor. It is a Mary In The Junkyard lyric, which is precisely why it works.

‘Mouse’ follows ‘New Muscles’, ‘Candelabra’ and ‘Crash Landing’ as the fourth and final preview of Role Model Hermit, a debut produced by Oli Bayston and Ben Baptie that spans eleven tracks. The Guardian described ‘New Muscles’ as shivering “with traces of Wild Beasts’ clattering menace.” The band have spent the past weeks road-testing the record, joining Dove Ellis for packed co-headline shows in New York and Los Angeles.

The album arrives just ahead of a nearly sold-out UK in-store tour beginning on 2nd July, followed by an extensive UK and European headline run in September and October and a full US tour in November.

UK in-store tour:

2 Jul – Banquet Records, Kingston

3 Jul – Resident, Brighton

4 Jul – Rough Trade East, London

5 Jul – Rough Trade Bristol, Bristol

6 Jul – Rough Trade Nottingham, Nottingham

7 Jul – Rough Trade Liverpool, Liverpool

8 Jul – Vinyl Whistle, Leeds

9 Jul – HMV, Manchester

10 Jul – Assai, Glasgow

UK and European headline tour:

22 Sep – The Grand Social, Dublin

23 Sep – Ulster Sports Club, Belfast

25 Sep – Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh

26 Sep – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds

27 Sep – Hare and Hounds, Birmingham

29 Sep – Gorilla, Manchester

30 Sep – Heaven, London

1 Oct – Exchange, Bristol

2 Oct – Club 85, Hitchin

5 Oct – La Bellevilloise, Paris

6 Oct – Botanique, Brussels

7 Oct – Rotown, Rotterdam

8 Oct – Bitterzoet, Amsterdam

US headline tour:

2 Nov – Zebulon, Los Angeles

4 Nov – Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco

6 Nov – Mississippi Studios, Portland

7 Nov – Barboza, Seattle

10 Nov – 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis

11 Nov – Empty Bottle, Chicago

13 Nov – The Garrison, Toronto

14 Nov – Petit Campus, Montreal

18 Nov – Baby’s All Right, Brooklyn

20 Nov – DC9, Washington DC

21 Nov – PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia

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