The new EP, Rope and Summit, from Junip is all about meetings. Jose Gonzaelz, Elias Araya, and Tobias Winterkorn craft music that brings together different elements for cosmic meetings.
The EP’s title track brings “Riders on the Storm” to meet a trance-like country folk train. While still moody, “Far Away” takes Chuck Berry’s “Route 66” to meet Son Volt. “Loops” is a bluesy meditation on slowcore.
The Doors are said to be named after a quote from William Blake about the doors of perception. On “At the Doors,” Junip enters through those doors, inviting us to come with as they go to where the Doors took psychedelic rock to meet jazz.
A full-length album should meet us all this fall.
