The Joy Formidable

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.

Love it.

nice. they always sound so good. great guitar tones, great production.

Oh yay. That is great.

i get have some good guitar tones but the production is way flat sounding

ok

Cholla is great but it doesn't sound like anything on Siamese Dream.

ok

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glad u agree

love the broken bass string

"Cholla" is sweet and this is already one of my most anticipated albums of 2013.

this new song is ok, but the best thing was returning to "whirring" afterwards for the first time in a while

what a tune

video up for 'this ladder is ours', the actual first single from the album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_t4s-HX3z0

They're so good at non-standard times and endless riffs.

i never did get the debut ..

but damn, i like this new one a lot (even though its fairly generic layered to excess guitar pop .. )

like that better than cholla

much more excited about this new record now

streaming: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-joy-formidable-reach-for-rock-heights-on-wolfs-law-album-premiere-20130116

:-D