Favorite Five: Since Juniper
By Miles Silverstein and Mia Romanoff
For this edition of Favorite Five, editors Miles Silverstein and Mia Romanoff sat down with the lead singer of Since Juniper, Claire Waskow, to hear her favorite albums.
Claire Waskow: There’s this movie that came out in 2007 called Once, I don’t know if either of you are familiar with it. I grew up watching that movie with my family, and all the music is original. It was this low-budget movie, just a director who wanted to make something small with these two musicians, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.
Hearing Aid (Miles Silverstein): That’s John Carney! He directed Sing Street, that’s one of my favorite movies. Another one with really great original music.
Waskow: Yeah! He’s super well-known now, but this movie in particular was made on such a low budget and with no intention of it being anything. The music really resonated with people, though, and one of the songs from the movie won the Oscar for Best Original Song. I think that’s such a cool story, that the movie wasn’t supposed to be this huge thing, and then the music is just so good. My family and I, any time that Glen Hansen or Marketa Irglova are on tour, we’re there. My brother and I are always the youngest people in the audience by, like, 40 years. So I’m constantly listening to Once (Music from the Motion Picture).
Waskow: ABBA Gold is a favorite of mine. My junior year of high school I was in Mamma Mia!, so ABBA Gold was on repeat. Great for that nostalgia of home and adolescence.
Waskow: The next one’s not an album, technically, it’s an EP, but I love Sammy Rae & The Friends’ The Good Life. Love that one, on repeat all the time. For me in particular, it’s pretty rare that I’ll listen to a full album and really know every single song, so I think EP’s are a little more manageable there sometimes. I love Sammy Rae. I saw her in concert two summers ago, and her instrumentalists are just as fantastic as her vocals. Super good, super fun.
Waskow: My family is obsessed with Coldplay, and their debut Parachutes was always on in my house when I was little. The rest of the members of Since Juniper are gonna kill me for that, shoutout to them. Not all of them, though, Theo just hates Coldplay with a burning passion. I think that Chris Martin is just so talented. Recently I’ve been listening to one song from that record on repeat, it’s called ‘Shiver’. It’s a lesser-known Coldplay song, but it’s been on all the time as I study for exams. It’s really good. Check out ‘Shiver’.
Waskow: The final album is an older Lizzy McAlpine album called Give Me A Minute, which is one of her OG albums. I think that her lyricism is so good on that one. I went to see her play the night before my eighteenth birthday, and she played so many songs from that album. Some nostalgia there too. Most of my stuff, it isn’t very new – I think being in study mode brings me back to the classics.