Local Feature: Mia June’s much anticipated EP Don’t Forget Your Bags
19-year old Boorloo-based songwriter Mia June has released her debut EP, titled Don’t Forget Your Bags. Laden with tales of the universally precarious transition from adolescence to adulthood, the EP’s six tracks sketch out a dramatic indie-rock map of June’s lost and found relationships in dynamic fashion.
Don’t Forget Your Bags spells out the ups and downs of growing with immediacy and directness; June’s experiences leap out at listeners unfiltered by time or the haze of recollection. Tender indie-folk odes to missed chances feature stripped-back and unadorned guitar playing and barely-there percussion while moments loaded with cathartic release are amplified by fuzzy, muscular alt-rock riffs and epic crescendos that descend into weight, half-time breakdowns.
Personifying youth in a remarkably mature fashion, Mia June’s songwriting and magnetic voice sit at the centre of Don’t Forget Your Bags, with each song standing as a personal talisman, reminding all of the journey of youth and the wisdom gleaned along the way.
She joins Pam Boland on Breakfast to chat about the EP’s launch, it’s writing and recording and more.
