The Joy Formidable

This is still such a great album.

Seeing these guys tonight. So psyched!

cradle remains one of my favorite songs of the past couple of years

― kaygee, Friday, September 2, 2011 1:17 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark

Hmm I've avoided them because of the band name but y'all are making them sound cool.

Seriously, the joy formidable is so bad, like a jam band from a small expensive private school in a small town in the midwest

― velvet underground - reloaded (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, September 2, 2011 9:24 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark

yeah the name is beyond embarrassing but imo you would probable dig it

the other night Conan reran the episode they were on, that performance was basically the thing that made me go "holy shit, i need to hear this album"

the band name is terrible and the album name is even worse
still, the music is great

they're like the ugli fruit of bands
http://www.fruitipedia.com/Fruit%20NGTP.jpg

im prolly repeating myself from rolling indie but Ostrich is still my favorite, such a raw beast (exactly why it wasn't one of the holdovers from the EP). Austere and Greatest Light still get me going but Whirring is totally lost on me. They're friendly too and I really wanna see them make good.

And my interview's up:

http://www.ocweekly.com/2011-09-08/music/the-joy-formindable-ritzy-bryan/

formindable!

Thankfully the actual headline's correct.

Great show last night. The band is totally tight. A lot of the songs have been lengthened out for noisy/neo-shoegazey parts. They played 'Ostrich' which I thought they wouldn't. And I never really warmed up to Cradle as many have around here but the version I heard last night was massive.

A lot of the songs have been lengthened out for noisy/neo-shoegazey parts.

OH DARN.

Meantime, a very...random story:

http://www.business2community.com/social-media/what-small-business-can-learn-from-the-joy-formidable-about-social-media-marketing-056217

(The impact seems to be 'hey let me tell you about this stuff everyone already knows about!')

that link has a youtube embed of the awesome Conan performance i was talking up thread, though!

There is that!

OH DARN.

So you haven't seen them, Ned?

Not yet. That will be corrected in two days.

i don't like the album quite as much as the ep, but like some others here i'm a sucker for that sound.

(lol this is like the only thread i've ever started on ilm that gets revived. thanks to maura for championing them!)

Yeah it was Maura's posts on idolator that got me into them.

Okay that show was insanely great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BMh8eirSDY

^^ yes!

i love hearing "Whirring" on the radio regularly now but it's such a disappointment when stations play the single edit w/o any of the outro

ooh, didn't know these guys were getting american radio play - i heard "austere" out at a restaurant last week and it was :D

yeah it's not a huge hit but it's definitely breaking through to mainstream radio a bit -- touring w/ the foo fighters probably helps

I'd gladly proffer payola if my Top 40 station played "Whirring."

Just got the "latest" issue of The Big Takeover and am rather surprised this hit their Top 40 albums of the past 4 months. I like it, but holy exclamation marks are these guys enthused over it

No, that's typical of BT. When Jack Rabid likes a band, his enthusiasm is rather boundless even if the band is medicore at best. Not saying that about Joy Formidable though.

"Top 40 albums of the past 4 months" doesn't sound like a really prestigious distinction though?

You should've seen some of the past #1s. There were some pretty dry 4 months out there if a tour-only EP from the Pernice Brothers garnered the #1 spot.

xp Consider BT is quarterly, it makes more sense.

it's such a disappointment when stations play the single edit w/o any of the outro

I hate the appended outro on the re-recorded album version, so imo the single edit is the o.g. version.

well, the radio version is edited down from The Big Roar version. what releases is the original version you're referring to on? A Balloon Called Moaning?

Yeah, that. (Maybe it also had its own single? I know it had a v1.0 video.)

weird: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=19839733

"endtapes" is so fuckin good

Saw these guys a few weeks ago and it reignited my obsession with their albums. The Big Roar is still growing on me, which is no small feat given how immediately taken with it I was.

Word is they're supposed to release another album sooner than later. Pretty excited.

That will be a treat!

Great news!

Bring it:

http://www.spin.com/articles/the-joy-formidable-roar-again-with-stately-wolfs-law

They are full of surprises. Love it.

yeah, cool song

I hate to be the lone voice of dissent, but this signals a boring turn imo.

i tend to give the benefit of the doubt that a first single is simply a statement on what one song on the album sounds like, not what the whole thing is going to sound like

Yeah, those guitars aren't going anywhere. I'd be content with The Big Roar 2: More of the Same, but I'm glad they're willing to mix it up a bit

The Joy Formidable have spent the first half of 2012 gearing up for the release of their second album, 'Wolf's Law', due out in early 2013. As a taster for fans of the new material, today the band have uploaded a video for a track inspired by the album title. 'Wolf's Law' (the track) will not be featured on the album but is a perfect pointer for the band's second album, both musically and thematically.

ha sometimes bands leave title tracks off albums but to have it as a standalone advance single is kinda ridiculous

I think it's a pretty ballsy statement. Not having the track on the album gives me permission to compulsively listen to it as much as I want, too. I'm not sure that it is a single—that term is never used in the band's press release—but given that the song has a video I guess that's just semantics.

i approve of this song

the new song they played live when i saw them ("silent treatment") was a slow ballad, but it was v pretty

yeah i imagine this won't be the song they send to radio or anything, i just meant 'single' in the broadest sense of song that was released by itself and not as part of an EP or LP

A (sort of silly) radio rip of the proper single "Cholla" is making the rounds now. Not sure if I should embed it b/c the audio is crappy and a better version must be on the way, but it's really good; super guitar heavy, very "Siamese Dream"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xsFhE9PzT8

Okay, this is properly dope.