Soul-Junk is an experimental genre-hopping Christian rock / hip hop group from San Diego, California.
The roots of Soul-Junk began in 1993 when Glen Galloway began experimenting while touring in Europe with his rock band Trumans Water. By the time Trumans Water moved to Portland, Oregon in 1994 he had already left and concentrated on Soul-Junk as a full time independent solo project, eventually taking the moniker Glen Galaxy. Influences on the gr...
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Soul-Junk is an experimental genre-hopping Christian rock / hip hop group from San Diego, California.
The roots of Soul-Junk began in 1993 when Glen Galloway began experimenting while touring in Europe with his rock band Trumans Water. By the time Trumans Water moved to Portland, Oregon in 1994 he had already left and concentrated on Soul-Junk as a full time independent solo project, eventually taking the moniker Glen Galaxy. Influences on the group's early music include Nation of Ulysses, Sonic Youth, and Can. Galloway had been raised as a presbyterian but had been an atheist for most of his life. While a member of Trumans Water, however, he had drifted back to Christianity and cited his bandmates' lack of "spirituality" as a factor in his leaving.
Early Soul-Junk albums (such as 1950) almost exclusively feature low-fi, Indie rock style tracks of Glen singing Bible verses interlaced with instrumental noise tracks, with a similarity to his previous band but with overtly Christian...
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