Buzzing Los Angeles band Junior Varsity are ending 2022 on a high note with their new single, “Florida” today. Junior Varsity notably penned and produced the track, while Hudson Pollock provided additional production. Throughout the song, acoustic guitar creaks beneath a lo-fi soundscape while nostalgic verses barely crack a whisper.
About the song, the band commented, “I used to have a lot of dreams that took place in the same empty, lonely, tropical environment at night; places like Hawaii, Florida, where I would often spend the holidays growing up. The song ‘Florida’ was written about about a dream I had in high school that took place in one of these environments, during a family gathering. I tried to use the song to explore the roots of where that dream world comes from.”
The duo of Greg Varteresian and Zach Michel unveiled SIDE B EP earlier this year. It has already tallied nearly 2 million streams and counting. It followed up last year’s bristling self-titled EP with a second set of genre-blurring tracks that echo the agitation of the world around them. Highlights include recent singles “I’m Not a Boy,” “Rushh,” and “Share Ur Feelings.”
With SIDE B, it’s easy to see why Pigeons & Planes included the band as one of their “Artists to Watch in 2022.” “The build-up has been long and steady,” they wrote. “And Junior Varsity is ready to detonate.”