Eleven songs about leaving the place where you grew up, written and recorded in a basement in East Austin, mixed in Mexico City, mastered in Lisbon at 2am.
Two songs are out as singles already. The third drops Friday. The rest stays under wraps until 12 June.
Six small rooms across the South and the Atlantic. No openers. The set is the full record plus three covers we still won't tell you about.
Born in Laredo. Raised in El Paso. Juno Rivera is a singer-songwriter, currently between Austin and Mexico City. Lowlands is her first full-length record, made over fifteen months across two basements, one bedroom, and a small studio in San Miguel de Allende.
Before this, three EPs — released quietly between 2022 and 2024 — and a viral two-minute cover of "Wichita Lineman" recorded on her grandmother's porch in late 2023, which is, depending on how you look at it, either the start or the inconvenience of everything that's followed.
She produces her own records with Ana Quintana (Lima, PE). The band on this record: Soto Castaño on bass, Will Friedman on drums, Marisol Acosta-Hahn on keys and pedal steel. The strings are Ana's mother.
No marketing, no upsells, no merch drops disguised as news. Songs, occasional photos, where I'm playing next. Three or four a year.