Just Mustard – “We Were Just Here” [Video]

Just Mustard Step Into the Light with We Were Just Here

Just Mustard are back and they’re aiming straight for the gut. The Dundalk, Ireland five-piece—Katie Ball, David Noonan, Mete Kalyoncuoğlu, Rob Clarke, and Shane Maguire—just announced their third album, We Were Just Here, dropping October 24 via Partisan Records. Alongside the news, they’ve unveiled the hypnotic title track with a video directed by Greg Purcell.

After Wednesday (2018) and their breakthrough Heart Under (2022), the band’s carved a lane all their own—warped guitars, shadowy textures, and bass lines that could rattle loose concrete. But We Were Just Here leans into something bigger and more widescreen: anthems that feel communal without losing their edge. It’s brighter in places, still strange in others, with Katie Ball’s voice pushed further to the forefront—sometimes reaching for pure euphoria, sometimes clawing through the tension.

Recorded at Black Mountain studio just outside their hometown and mixed by David Wrench (Frank Ocean, FKA twigs), the album finds Just Mustard flipping their usual process. Instead of building songs from loops and textures, they started with bold, fully-formed structures, channeling the dynamic pull of bands like Nirvana and My Bloody Valentine. Between the hooks are haunting detours—warped voices, fractured noise, and snippets from demos that make the record feel alive and unpredictable.

Following the buzz of early single “Pollyanna” (all hazy guitars, pounding drums, and dreamlike vocals), “we were just here” pulses like the walls are sweating in some half-lit club, with just enough Lynchian haze to keep you unsteady.

Watch the “We Were Just Here” video and get ready for the full record in October—because this time, Just Mustard aren’t pulling you through a tunnel. They’re dragging you out into the blinding light.

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Tour Dates
Sat. Aug. 16 – Brecon Beacons, UK @ Green Man Festival
Sat. Aug. 30 – Stradbally, IE @ Electric Picnic
Sat. Sept. 6 – Sun. Sept. 7 – Boston, MA @ Seisiún Festival
Tue. Sept. 9 – Brooklyn, NY @ National Sawdust
Fri. Sept. 19 – Hamburg, DE @ Reeperbahn Festival
Mon. Sept. 22 – Berlin, DE @ Privatclub
Wed. Sept. 24 – Paris, FR @ Point Empemere
Thu. Sept. 25 – London, UK @ Hoxton Hall – SOLD OUT
Fri. May 1 – Dublin, IE @ 3Olympia Theatre