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One to watch: Julie

The 90s-channelling LA art-rock trio’s fuzzy guitars, distorted vocals and doomy lyrics are a lo-fi blast

“We try to mesh these things that are sweet and soft with an unsettling feeling,” Julie bassist and vocalist Alexandria Elizabeth (then known as Alex Brady) told Teen Vogue last year, in an interview that described the band’s music as evoking a sense of “foreboding nostalgia”. Through a blast of distorted bass and guitar feedback, Pourzand sings: “I’m draped in lead, I’m heavy as a slug/ Drag the body under the rug.” New single Clairbourne Practice, taken from their forthcoming, much-anticipated debut album, My Anti-Aircraft Friend, delivers more melancholy, as Brady sweetly intones over a wall of sound: “The things you do/ And all you say/ I’ll cut my hair another way.” With an appealing art-school vibe – Elizabeth and Pourzand were at the same LA architecture institute before dropping out – the band design all their merchandise and cover art, making collages from old notes and diaries.

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