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“McDoom says she knew the sound she was after before she understood what her debut album would say.”
“She and Wright taught themselves how to record.”
“Her self-titled debut EP, released in 2022, introduced her hushed brand of folk to indie rock spaces.”
“With Follow the Light , she let herself find out what would happen.”
““I’m trying to find myself through my music by including different parts of myself.”
“She imagined the Jamaican records she grew up hearing, plus the harmonies she loved in Joni Mitchell and Judee Sill .”
““So I’ll be like, ‘I really want this bass line,’ and I sing it and then he’ll play it.”
“On the EP, the excitement of recording had sometimes carried her past words she wasn’t satisfied with.”
“Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Folk Dub June McDoom Makes Folk Music With the Bass Turned Up On her debut album, Follow the Light , the New York songwriter brings the Jamaican records she grew up with into the traditions that she learned to love on her own By Jeff Ihaza Jeff Ihaza Contact Jeff Ihaza by Email June McDoom Makes Folk Music With the Bass Turned Up Sophia Stel’s Pop Ambitions Are Stronger Than Her Nerves Mike Tyson Accuses Supreme of Breaching Contract Over Palestinian Flag Hoodie View all posts by Jeff Ihaza October 19, 2026 Add us as a Google Preferred Source Lexi Hide* The leaves are a vibrant mix of greens and auburn, casting a warm glow over Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where I meet singer-songwriter June McDoom at her studio.”
““And that was what the album became, just a puzzling process of me trying to put together my different influences.” Born Alyssa McDoom, she grew up in Florida, where her parents, who moved from Jamaica to the U.S.”
““I just made it because I thought it could be a special thing for people to hear,” she says.”
“Her recently released debut album, Follow the Light , brings the deep bass of Jamaican dub into McDoom’s intimate productions.”
“I hope to encourage people to do that too, because we’re just living in this crazy echo chamber of content.”
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“A microphone lies across the Sound Workshop mixing desk, and a Roland Jupiter-8 synthesizer is reflected in the studio window.”
“The space, on a scenic block near the water, looks something like a dentist’s office.”
““I knew that before the project started, I wanted to do some sort of fusion between the genres, but I wasn’t really sure how,” she says.”
““In school, I didn’t have that many friends.”
““It was just a message for myself that I don’t need to hold onto people in my life that don’t accept me completely….”
“And they had lives where they did music but also did other things.”
““Even with the sound of the record, I feel like it became this dreamy sort of sound that I didn’t intentionally try and do.” On “Follow the Light,” a reggae groove gives way to a choral passage written by a friend.”