Junior Brother has released his new single ‘Welcome To My Mountain’ alongside an accompanying music video.

It’s the opening track off his upcoming third album The End, due for release on September 5 through Strap Originals. He will tour across Ireland, the UK and Europe, with his first performance in Glasgow set for Friday. The album is available for pre-order now.

“The opening track on the record stemmed from my attempt at writing a slipjig – The song’s main whistle riff was the result,” he said. “With this, the song mutated into quite a large beast of a yoke, the beginning of a journey into the mouth of modern madness. The lyrics were largely taken from an actual firsthand account of a man getting lost in a Fairy Fort while walking home, heard from UCD’s great folklore podcast Blúiríní Béaloidis.”

The music video was created by longtime collaborator Ellius Grace, and captures the eerie nature of the song.

“An older Local in rural Ireland relays the events of a strange encounter with another world to a Collector,” Junior Brother explained. “The Collector brings to this tale his tape machine and his cynicism, but ends up immersed, and ultimately trapped, in the rural purgatory the Local Man describes. Teller and Collector become merged, within the pastoral world of the Old Man's nightmare.”

Pre-order The End here, and watch the music video for ‘Welcome To My Mountain’ below:

See Junior Brother's upcoming tour dates below:

June
6 GLASGOW Glad Cafe
7 STIRLING The Tolbooth

July
6 LIMAVADY Stendhal Festival NI

August
9 ANTRIM Under the Drum Festival NI
12 EDINBURGH La Belle Angelle supporting Peter O’Doherty
13 EDINBURGH La Belle Angelle supporting Peter O’Doherty
29 DORSET End of the Road Festival with the Incredible String Band

September
12 CORK The Pav Sounds From a Safe Harbour Festival Album Launch
13 DUBLIN Grand Social Club Album Launch
14 DUBLIN Grand Social Club Album Launch
20 LONDON South Bank Centre QE Hall with the Incredible String Band
21 DROGHEDA Vantastival Festival

October
10 TRALEE LASTA Festival Síamsa Tire

November
9 CLONAKILTY DeBarras Samhain Festival
14 GALWAY Róisín Dubh
15 LIMERICK Upstairs at Dolan’s Warehouse
21 DERRY Sandinos
22 BANGOR Open House Festival
23 DUNDALK Spirit Store
26 BIRMINGHAM The Victoria
27 LONDON Hootananny
28 LEEDS Hyde Park Book Club
29 MANCHESTER Gulliver’s