Belfast psychedelic art-rock quartet Junk Drawer release new album Days of Heaven via Pizza Pizza Records (Just Mustard, The Altered Hours, Elaine Malone). From bucolic origins recording the album with Chris W Ryan (Robocobra Quartet, Just Mustard, New Dad) in rural Co. Wicklow Days of Heaven is Junk Drawer's attempt to make a work of weird, cosmic Ulster music. The four-piece took inspiration from the way Gram Parsons, The Byrds, Grateful Dead and the likes created a language and pathway for cosmic American music by drinking in what came before and spitting it out via the inherited angst of growing up in a post-war world. Sonically the band's well-worn influences are still to be found; from the breeze of sixties West Coast LA, the pink frost of eighties New Zealand to the otherworlds of Zappa and Beefheart. Taking specific weirdo/post-punk influences from Fat White Family, Wire, Meat Puppets, Cleaners From Venus, Richard Dawson and more there is a deft agility to the four-pieces traversal of the genre. This is most stark in the track-listing lay-out - the album is very much a light and shade record. The 6 songs on side-A are short, brighter, snappy 'pop' songs, while the second half takes you into the murk of it - more heaviness, longer jams, an entirely different side of the band. In 'Days of Heaven' the band's progress is clear. On "Pell Mell" and "Nids Niteca" riffs are tighter than ever before, the lush Casiotone-infused melancholy on "Where Goes The Time" is a thing of beauty, and we're even treated to the roar from one of Ulster sport's finest moments in "Black Ball 85". But scratch the surface and the world just below is...