Best known as one half of Brighton alt-rock duo Blood Red Shoes, Laura-Mary Carter steps into a new creative chapter with 'June Gloom', the first single from her forthcoming debut solo album 'Bye Bye Jackie', out on the 26th September.
Marking a bold shift from the electrified urgency of her band, 'June Gloom' leans into noir-tinged indie and Americana melancholy, a moody, poetic track that captures the strange timing of sorrow. “It’s about how sadness creeps in just when things are going right,” Carter says. “It’s part funeral planning, part cosmic shrug.”
Featuring a guest appearance from IDLES guitarist Lee Kiernan, the track is laced with wry humour and emotional weight, using Southern California’s foggy ‘June Gloom’ as a metaphor for inner unrest.
Written on Spanish guitar and recorded in Hackney with Oscar Robertson (sholto) and David Bardon (sunglasses for jaws), 'Bye Bye Jackie' explores themes of love, alienation, and self-discovery, shaped by Carter’s own outsider roots in suburban Greater London. Influences range from The Velvet Underground to Beck, reimagined through a lens of tender vulnerability.
Watch the new video for 'June Gloom' in the player below.
