Junior Brother Announces Debut Album 'Pull The Right Rope' And Shares New Single

Music
15 Apr 19

The debut album from Kerry artist Junior Brother arrives next month.

Kerry artist Junior Brother has announced his debut album Pull The Right Rope, out May 24 via Strange Brew, and shared a new single, 'Full of Wine'.

Pull The Right Rope has been in the works for five years now, growing from a variety of emotions and experiences – positive and negative – to form the 9-track, 48-minute-long album. Junior Brother, aka Killarney native Ronan Kealy, has garnered a reputation for introspective, whip-smart lyrics and engaging live performances over the past few years.

Junior Brother expanded on the meaning behind Pull The Right Rope and its album artwork in a statement:

“This album's artwork was painted by Conor Campbell. The cover is based on the Tarot card image of 'Four of Cups'. When I saw this scene on a Tarot card, I thought the scene and meaning of the image fit with the tone and imagined landscape of the album. I sit on a knoll under a tall tree far away from the bustle of city life with my tambourine under my foot and my sock over my other. I am pale and quietly distressed, seen considering the three empty cups before me, looking to the listener.

"I appear not to notice the full cup handed to me from a strange cloud behind. Just as the listener must choose which emotion out of many on the album to take away, the artist on the cover must make the effort to turn and take the fourth full cup. With no words bearing the title on the cover, these cups do the job instead, a cup for each word. The Rope being the full cup, the effort to Pull being the effort to turn and Take it. We don't know if the figure on the front will do this or not. So, he looks to you instead to choose the right cup.”

Listen to 'Full of Wine' below: