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June LaLonde @junelalonde.bsky.social · 22d

Album art for "Framemaker"
By @hrabb.it

Album art for June's next album, "Framemaker," mixing illustration with digital collage.

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June LaLonde @junelalonde.bsky.social · 6h

It'll be out Nov. 18th, exactly one year after Mom's passing.

June LaLonde @junelalonde.bsky.social · 6h

I feel that this is my best work, and personally it is my most clear and meaningful. There isn't a lot of desire tied up in this music - they all just felt like songs I needed to write and sing. It's taken a lot out of me.

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June LaLonde @junelalonde.bsky.social · 6h

"Stranger (Aftermath)" is the only instrumental on the album, repurposing the solo from "Stranger" to evoke a different feeling - one that is small, quiet. It wraps up the album without resolving it in concrete terms, and it's sort've a matter of what you want to project onto it.

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June LaLonde @junelalonde.bsky.social · 6h

"Until Next Time" is about quiet details I held onto in grieving for my mom while she was still living but not quite here, anymore. I'd sit at her bedside for hours and hope for a few seconds of recognition as I brushed her hair.

Harmonics in solo were meant to evoke train departure chimes.

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June LaLonde @junelalonde.bsky.social · 7h

"Sun Eater" is a fuzzy, shoegazey, broken and bruised song surrounding Mom's passing specifically, but with Scribe and Piper's passing wrapped up in it, too. Like "Land of Kings" the music for this had been done for a minute but the lyrics didn't come until the first half of this year happened.

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June LaLonde @junelalonde.bsky.social · 7h

"Stranger" is about the crisis-of-unfaith that sprang up for me around the time of Mom's diagnosis and confronting things about my beliefs that shook me to my core.

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June LaLonde @junelalonde.bsky.social · 7h

"Howling Bodies" was the last track written for this record and it actually saved two other tracks from almost being kicked off the tracklist. It's about love that's lost after a death and finding the love that is left behind. Doesn't really have a chorus.

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June LaLonde @junelalonde.bsky.social · 7h

"Everyday" was also released prior as a sardonic track about inciting violence against those destroying the environment. It wouldn't be a modern-day JLL record without a Blur impression, but I like how this one builds.

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June LaLonde @junelalonde.bsky.social · 7h

"Land of Kings" is a song about lovers on the run. The music for this with the fuzz-guitar riffs had already been made a long while ago, but lyrics only came after seeing trans siblings being made to flee certain states.

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June LaLonde @junelalonde.bsky.social · 7h

"For A Girl" was also released prior, but was written as a letter to my younger self over the same subject matter as Warm and Near. This one needed a slight re-write before performing it for the first time, a small but really big change for the story it tells to feel honest and full and more hopeful

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June LaLonde @junelalonde.bsky.social · 7h

"Warm and Near" deals with fear I had to work through in accepting myself as a trans woman. There was the elation, a lot of pieces finally clicking into place for me - but there was also a lot of work in looking in the mirror and asking myself if I'm okay. A sort of do-it-scared-but-do-it feeling.

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June LaLonde @junelalonde.bsky.social · 7h

"Halo" was already released, but I wanted to touch on early 00's indie-pop that had this effusive joy to it in the making of it. Passion Pit, Polyphonic Spree, that sort of thing. I feel like I found my own flavor of that here.

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June LaLonde @junelalonde.bsky.social · 8h

"Something Grand" was written after Scribewolf died. I met him only briefly but admired instantly. The music had him in mind, and the lyrics are written towards my late mom. Most of the album is about her.

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June LaLonde @junelalonde.bsky.social · 10h

"Framemaker" is me describing what I think music does. Songs that stay with us get there by matching a part of ourselves. So I think of musicians as framemakers for listener's paintings - their moments, their lives. Our work is only important because of the people that choose to listen to it.