JUANITA STEIN
UK TOUR STARTS 14TH MARCH
NEW ALBUM ‘THE WEIGHTLESS HOUR’ OUT NOW 
“Haunted, folk-infused indie-rock” Pitchfork
“Stripped down and minimalist” The Wall Street Journal
“Spellbinding” Rolling Stone France
“Former Howling Bells singer/guitarist returns with a radically different, stripped-back sound… it’s a marvel how big she can make her voice and guitar sound. She is allowing herself to take up that space” The Quietus
“A mature record that sounds completely at peace with its place in life” DIY Mag
“Stein steers these heavy songs with admirably light touch” Mojo
“I got my sound”, Juanita Stein insists on “Ceremony” accompanied by distorted guitars and a hint of a twang, but nowadays it’s sparser, as these semi-acoustic songs confirm” Uncut
“Accompanied only by her electric guitar, she sings soulful songs about broken hearts, America and the climate crisis” Louder Than War
“A carefree, whistle-it-on-the-porch Americana-ish tune with a lovely melody” The New Cue
“Juanita Stein is poetically drifting forward into her own creative world on every song off her wittingly beautiful new album” Northern Transmissions
“Juanita Stein’s evolution as a solo artist is becoming a fascinating journey to witness” Music OMH
Juanita Stein warms up for her imminent solo headline tour with the release of an Orlando-Cubitt-directed
video for ‘Old World’, taken from her critically acclaimed fourth solo album ‘
The Weightless Hour’ (out now, Agricultural Audio). Following recent UK tours with Evan Dando and Travis, the
Howling Bells frontwoman will embark on her own UK solo headline dates, which include a performance at London’s Lower Third on 25th March.
WATCH ‘OLD WORLD’ VIDEO HERE 
Stein says of ‘Old World’: “This was a song that was written in one long breath, in a room, in a house, in a village in the South of France. After having taken a long walk through the woods, the light streaming through the pine trees, I found myself reflecting on what it means for me, to have ended up living and travelling in Europe, like so many of my family before me.
This song recalls the first time I travelled to Europe, which was with my family when I was 16. Having lived a life in Australia, a country in its infancy by comparison, I was confronted with a rich and bloodied history whose roots ran centuries underground. The generational trauma that came with learning about my own family history there, was a reckoning. We brought along my grandmother, who hadn’t returned to Czechoslovakia since she was 14, when she was forced to flee the Nazis. We visited the crumbling house she grew up in. I stood in the streets of many Jewish ghettos and burnt out synagogues that were forced to become churches. I visited Holocaust Memorial museums, I learned of the slow rise of right-wing fascism reawakening in a new Europe, all of this coupled with the acknowledgement that I had relocated to Europe myself to start a family and the conflict that causes within the body. I learned what it felt like to be the “other”, to be hated for the religion you were born into, and simultaneously, to also be hated for being perceived as a Westerner, as when someone yelled at me, “bloody American” when they looked down at my ripped jeans, or when me and my brothers were hauled into a police station in Prague for potentially spying when using our disposable cameras outside a cemetery. This was not Australia. This was The Old World.”
Juanita Stein Live Dates 2025:
MARCH
Fri 14th – SHEFFIELD, Hallamshire Hotel
Sat 15th – MANCHESTER, Soup
Mon 17th – NEWCASTLE, Cluny 1
Tue 18th – GLASGOW, Nice’n’Sleazy
Wed 19th – EDINBURGH, Sneaky Pete’s
Fri 21st – LEEDS, Headrow House
Sat 22nd – CARDIFF, Clwb Ifor Bach
Mon 24th – BIRMINGHAM, Hare & Hounds
Tue 25th – LONDON, Lower Third
Wed 26th – SOUTHAMPTON, The Joiners
Thu 27th – BRIGHTON, Hope & Ruin
Tickets are available
here.
’The Weightless Hour’ sees Stein join forces once more with long-time collaborator, the producer Ben Hillier (see also: Depeche Mode, Doves, Blur, Elbow). After originally teaming up for 2020’s Snapshot, Stein’s third record, which was built from collected fragments of grief following the loss of her father, it was Hillier’s penchant for minimalism – his instinct for risk-taking while stripping sounds back to their gleaming bones – that aligned with her vision for her fourth project.
LISTEN TO NEW ALBUM ‘THE WEIGHTLESS HOUR’ HERE In removing most instrumental additions beyond the guitar (and you will notice there are no drums on the LP), with ‘The Weightless Hour’, Stein made a subconscious choice to make the project entirely her own. In the space freed by the stripped-back instrumentation, her storytelling bleeds freely like watercolours across a blank page. The album is an intensely human document with a profound sense of dignity. A record on which Stein has found that exploring a more restrained side can yield work that is armed with experience and yet is all the lighter for it, where your attention isn’t demanded and yet is effortlessly claimed. Every sound, every choice, has earned its place.
“I think making records is a really powerful way of letting go of experiences,” Stein notes. “I’m allowing myself to kiss things goodbye.” Through these converging chapters of her life, ‘The Weightless Hour’ feels like an arrival for Juanita Stein: “I’ve finally learned to be okay in space and be loud in my experiences.”
WATCH ‘MOTHER NATURES SCORN’ VIDEO HERE WATCH ‘CARRY ME’ VIDEO HERE WATCH ‘MOTIONLESS’ VIDEO HERE BUY ‘THE WEIGHTLESS HOUR’ HERE Photo credit: Giovanna Ferin
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