Music

I’ve played in DIY punk bands for over ten years as both a drummer and a vocalist, including Sauna Youth, Feature, Monotony and Gold Foil.

I’ve also been a guest vocalist on records by Fucked Up, Human Hair and Buttonhead, and I sometimes play drums in a Ramones covers band called The Ranomes.

Featured Music

Deaths LP

Sauna Youth
Upset The Rhythm, 2018

The final album in the triolgy. An album once finished is frozen in time, solid and no longer resistent or adaptive to outside forces. Does the difficulty to find an end come from the genre, from punk’s revisionist impulse, redoing the same thing over and over? Do we avoid an ending because playing in a band is a distraction from everyday life?

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Banishing Ritual

Feature
Upset The Rhythm, 2017

Thanks to Feature’s deceiving indifference, Banishing Ritual sounds like that house show you discovered last minute on a weekday, which ends up being one of the best gigs you’ve ever been to. […] Feature’s ability to evoke the purest, most visceral form of punk is an innate quality that comes naturally to the band

The Quietus
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Calleja’s lyrics are sparse narratives

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Distractions LP

Sauna Youth
Upset The Rhythm, 2015

Distractions is made up of 14 songs about desire, but more importantly, about that area just out of reach of desire, at the very centre of the human psyche. It looks at what it means to be distracted from being yourself. It thrives in the desire to be someone else, the very idea that you could be someone else. It’s also an album that feels instinctive and natural, flowing freely from a band that have come to terms with the sum of its parts. Ultimately though, Sauna Youth have made a colossal record which is impossible not to dance to.

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Jen Calleja’s articulate, poetically surreal discourse

Clash Magazine

Monotony LP

Monotony
Upset The Rhythm, 2014

The alter-ego of Sauna Youth.

Faux Discx is FINALLY putting out the first 6 songs written by the band Monotony on vinyl. Previously only available as a download and fleetingly as a limited cassette on Comfortable On A Tightrope, these six rough, instant and infectious songs were created without any intentions but soon took on a life of their own. The 12” repeats on both sides for a fully monotonous experience with hand screen-printed artwork by The Positive Press and limited to 300.

Pie and Vinyl
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Dreamlands LP

Sauna Youth
Faux Discx / Gringo Records, 2012

An evolving band of young future humans making truly irregular punk not quite comparable to anything else; Sauna Youth’s debut album is served as a joint release between Gringo Records and Faux Discx. The band, attracted to the possibilities apparent within a DIY philosophy have been self-recording and self-releasing their own music since 2010, creating a number of seven inches, splits and cassettes. Dreamlands will be the band’s first long-player, marking the mutation of their sound and a new line-up.

Press Release, Faux Discx
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