If someone mashed together the sounds of Amy Winehouse and Rex Orange County, you would get joesefjoesef.
together in some miraculous music machine and raised whatever it created in Scottish suburbia. The whole hysteria feels slightly incongruous to his humble upbringings right now. “I try to not take it in because I think I’ll lose my mind,” he grins. “I’m taking it as it comes. I got sacked from a bar back in March and I haven’t been back to work yet. It’s class ‘cause I don’t need to work there anymore. Everything’s all a laugh, innit? Easy breezy.
2016 was the year it all started to make sense to him. At the age of 20, he fell in love with someone so hard that he now has those two digits tattooed on his ribcage to remind him of those times. “It was a pure summer of love,” he smiles, “and it was my first boy as well.” He compares that experience, after years of dating girls, to being hit by a train. For months, the pair kept their love secret, fearing the reactions of their families at first.
When he came out as bisexual, it was hardly a big deal. But that initial hesitation, we say, might be a Scottish thing; I grew up 40 minutes from him and took my time telling my family I was queer too. “It goes without saying that, growing up in the east end of Glasgow being anything other than a big straight boy has negative connotations,” Joesef says. “But it was never a massive thing for me, which I’m really lucky about because it is for some people. I’ve never really had any hassle about it.
, six tracks of flourishing romance, fuck ups and bad decisions that feel good in the moment. That first queer courtship might’ve given him a “the world’s ending kinda buzz”, but he has the rare ability to make even the most dismal of situations sound quite sweet. The grounded title track sees him battling with that awful feeling of wanting the company of someone you’ve parted with.
Although a career as a musician wasn’t always in his sightlines as a kid, Joesef was surrounded by the influences that imbue much of his sound now from an early age. “It was always old music, even when I wis a baby. A pure foetus singin’ Al Green!” That was his mum’s touch: she appreciated the masters of mid-20th century soul, but always made room for a little bit of 90s pop too;
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