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Guitar World
Guitar World
Entertainment
Cheri Amour

“I cut my finger and got blood on the fretboard. It felt like the guitar had chosen me”: Deftones are fans. Wet Leg invited them on tour. Meet Mary in the Junkyard, the classically rooted alt-rockers making mind-bending indie with Elliott Smith’s tunings

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 17: Clari Freeman-Taylor of Mary in the Junkyard performs at Central Park SummerStage on September 17, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images).

“I heard some of the Deftones were at our San Francisco show,” says Clari Freeman-Taylor, guitarist for melodic experimentalists Mary in the Junkyard. She and bandmates Saya Barbaglia and David Addison have spent the last month on a bus supporting Wet Leg on their mammoth US tour.

After such a meteoric rise, it’s not surprising that Chino Moreno and co were keen to clock the Isle of Wight band in action. But, as Freeman-Taylor admits, their setup is still fairly modest. “Wet Leg has a huge sound and production team. We were tiny in comparison to their epic show!”

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