“Since the release of their 2018 debut album ‘Sistahs’, and through gigs supporting Sleater-Kinney, Parquet Courts, IDLES, Bikini Kill and more, Big Joanie have been held up as one of British punk’s great new hopes. With a fiercely DIY ethos, intelligent lyricism, gorgeous three-part harmonies and crunching riffs, they fit the bill to become all-out punk rock stars. True to their disruptive manifes”
“On the UK trio’s first LP for Kill Rock Stars, the band fleshes out its riot-grrrl-meets-girl-group sound with electronics and strings while singing of strength and vulnerability.”
“It’s been four years since London DIY punks Big Joanie released their debut album, and with their second full length record Back Home, the trio have morphed beyond the archetypal lo-fi punk of their early days, into a weightier force not bound by genre, but by ethos instead. With the eerie neopagan folk of ‘Cactus Tree’ opening the record, Big Joanie are intriguing right from the start of their n”