.

.

.

Photo – Chayto Nadin

.

Praise for JUICE WEBSTER

“Incessantly beautiful” – Nylon Magazine

“The songs on ‘More Than Reaction’ slowly unfurl around Juice Webster’s vocals until they reach their emotional peak. The result is a softly devastating collection that lingers long past its runtime.” – NME

“A beautiful build, given weight with that guitar, and the vocals working to ground the song in a beautiful loop” – Zan Rowe, Double J

“…that thick emotion her voice crackles with once again shining through with her own project.” – Pilerats

“a whole body experience of head-to-toe tingles” – Verve Zine

“cinematic, chilling… [a] beautiful masterpiece.” – Backseat Mafia

.

.

Naarm/Melbourne based artist JUICE WEBSTER (she/her) today shares her new single ‘In The Zone’, alongside an intimate music video that captures the restlessness that can fall through in the nighttime. Juice Webster confidently steps forward as an artist on ‘In The Zone’, her first cut of music since her acclaimed More Than Reaction EP (2021). ‘In The Zone’ is out now through Cohort, stream HERE.

Decidedly pop-forward and downbeat, ‘In The Zone’ lays bare the anxiety that can come from the unexpected, and the feelings of disconnection and disassociation that may follow. Her silvery vocals cut through deep, soggy bass and a forlorn keyboard riff that seemingly spirals around the void, parsing that otherworldly, almost alien-like feeling of being a world apart from those around you emotionally, despite how close to them you want to be.

Of the single, Juice Webster says, “‘In The Zone’ is all about disconnection and anxiety. The confusion that comes when things are going one way, and then the wind changes and suddenly you don’t know where you are anymore. Sometimes I find myself feeling so tired it’s as though I’m on one side of a sheer curtain and everything else is on the other side. I can see and hear what’s going on, but I’m not quite there, and while I’m persevering, I’m kind of struggling.”

Directed by Meg Duncan (who also directed the award-winning 2018 short film Lavender), the eerie and reflective ‘In The Zone’ music video takes in urban cityscapes, suburban interiors, after-hours swimming pools and night-vision that produces a decidedly unearthly and unsettling tone reminiscent of iconic videos from artists like Sky Ferreira and Ethel Cain. Juice Webster shares of the video, “It felt right to lean into the feelings of alienation and dissociation that I’m singing about by creating something that feels a bit frantic, off-kilter and almost other-worldly.”

First winning ears and hearts around the continent as one half of indie electronic duo Hemm, Juice Webster’s solo works span across a vast sonic territory – her take on introspective indie-rock saw her compared to the likes of Snail Mail and Phoebe Bridgers (Beat Magazine), while her folk melancholia was likened to Cat Power (Swede and Sour, US); now she steps confidently into a zone entirely her own, mastering her craft and writing the songs she has long worked towards creating, without losing the irresistibly inviting darkness that permeates her work. Her EPs More Than Reaction (2021) and You Who Was Myself (2019) saw strong support from NYLON, triple j, triple j Unearthed, Tone Deaf, Beat Magazine, NME, Pilerats, Music Feeds, MILKY, Trouble Juice, Dansende Beren, The Backbeat Podcast, Complete Music Update, FBi Radio, Triple R, SYN FM, PBSFM, 2SER, 4ZZZ, Radio Adelaide and more. Juice Webster’s debut solo album will be released in 2023 via Cohort.

.

.

Follow JUICE WEBSTER
Instagram – Facebook – Twitter 
Bandcamp – Spotify – Apple Music

.

AMNPLIFY – DB