June Swoon is a songwriter, singer, and producer who lived throughout the American Southwest before settling in the foothills of Los Angeles. Her music is cinematic, songwriter-driven, and experimental, encompassing alternative and Americana.

 

Juli Lydell grew up in DIY rock bands between Sacramento and Austin, Texas. After years of drifting, she found herself at rock bottom: stuck in the Blue Ridge Mountains with a broken heart. She wrote the first June Swoon demos watching spaghetti westerns in the snow. She was hired to play guitar in a friend’s touring band back on the West Coast. She wrote more songs in the tour van, and when she returned home to California to stay, she began tracking them all in her Echo Park bedroom. 18 months later, the alt-country album emerged as “evocative of both Modest Mouse and Nancy Sinatra” (York Calling). June Swoon began touring in 2019. The album sold out its first vinyl pressing.

 

When her 2020 album release tour was cancelled due to Covid-19, Lydell immediately got to work on the second June Swoon LP, “A House With Windows Open.” It was recorded at 64 Sound in Highland Park in 2022 with a full band and produced by Lydell. The album was released in summer of 2023 and June Swoon did a national U.S. tour from Los Angeles to Brooklyn, ending with a rodeo at the Lodge Room in Los Angeles. New Noise Magazine described the album as having “a deep sense of melancholy, with an amazing sense of folk and pop melodies. An explosion of emotion.”