June McDoom – Human Angel
“Human Angel” started as a plain folk song and turned into one of June McDoom’s first real crossings of folk and reggae. It opens on fingerpicking and the sound of wind howling, then the drums arrive with dub in their bones, jerky and syncopated, with fills that wouldn’t be out of place on a breakbeat record. Harp threads through the whole thing, synths add a little glow, and her voice floats above it all without ever hurrying.
She grew up with her father’s sound systems thudding through the bedroom floor while she listened to folk records upstairs, so the meeting point was always going to be somewhere around here. It’s the last single before her debut album “Follow the Light”, out October 16 on Jagjaguwar, and that record is going to be one of our albums of the month. Folk and dub have rarely sat this comfortably together.
Tour dates
USA
- 16 October: Boston, MA @ Cafe 939, with Lutalo
- 17 October: Brooklyn, NY @ National Sawdust, with Anant Pradhan
- 22 October: Kingston, NY @ Tubby’s, with Lutalo
- 23 October: Washington, DC @ Songbyrd, with Lutalo
- 24 October: Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s, with Lutalo
- 6 December: Portland, OR @ Jack London, with Eliana Glass
- 7 December: Seattle, WA @ Barboza, with Eliana Glass
- 10 December: Los Angeles, CA @ Echo, with Eliana Glass
- 12 December: San Francisco, CA @ 4 Star Theater, with Eliana Glass
- 28 January 2027: Chicago, IL @ TBA
Europe
- 8 April 2027: Paris, FR @ Point Éphémère
- 12 April 2027: Amsterdam, NL @ Zonzij
- 14 April 2027: Berlin, DE @ Urban Spree
- 15 April 2027: Copenhagen, DK @ Ideal Bar
- 18 April 2027: Brussels, BE @ Botanique
UK
- 20 April 2027: Bristol @ The Louisiana
- 21 April 2027: London @ Chats Palace
- 22 April 2027: Leeds @ Brudenell Social Club
- 23 April 2027: Manchester @ The Abbey
- 25 April 2027: Glasgow @ Glad Cafe
