The Joy Formidable

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

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, September 14, 2012 10:52 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

i have a lot of enthusiasm for this band. i think i used to agree with matt dc about the songwriting being secondary to the sound (think i used to just listen to "whirring" and "cradle" over and over again) but i think the songs are by nature kind of slow-acting; first you're overwhelmed by the sound of it and then the fragments of melody slip in lightly, almost unnoticed. the kind of effect where i was sort of underwhelmed at first by "cholla" and "this ladder is ours" and then found aspects of them in my head a week later

i can tell you right now that i don't know how i feel about "maw maw song"

oh hey I am kind of digging this

also the beginning of "cholla" is like a bomb going off every time

okay seriously why did I have problems connecting with this band before

YOU HAD KNOCKWURST IN YOUR EARS BUT THANKFULLY YOU CLEANED THAT OUT.

Sorry I was just having a compulsive air guitar moment earlier and I mock all who hate this band.

Also the one-two of "Tendons"/"Little Blimp" makes me want to have an Alex in NYC moment and bulldoze over the remains of idiots and fools.

no no you're right, I literally had knockwurst in my ears

Also the one-two of "Tendons"/"Little Blimp" makes me want to have an Alex in NYC moment and bulldoze over the remains of idiots and fools.

*main riff to "cholla" plays as ned, piloting a bulldozer, emerges smiling from beyond the hill*

did they get a little gothier on this release or something

it's a little more immediate than the big roar

they're about equally goth though

also this is the first record i can think of where i'm actually glad there's a hidden track, and it's "wolf's law"

that's good to hear, it was pretty dumb when they released the title track as a single and then said it wouldn't be on the album

i can tell you right now that i don't know how i feel about "maw maw song"

It feels like this: "Whuh, but that's still a cool start...wait they became "Hard to Explain" by the Strokes but actually good, then they went back to the apocalyptic glam-stomp because why the fuck not."

Okay ending (bonus track aside) on a huge string laden punch = A fucking plus.

Probably helps that I was warned by some friends long ago this album was a slow-grower, but man, this is all sounding incredible to me on first listen

oh no, "maw maw." I always assumed these guys were above that kind of Flaming Lips tomfoolery

So yeah, this album is utterly wonderful though. And just distinct enough from their debut, without totally sacrificing the qualities that made that one so good

yeah it's a proper progression

this album is insane.

I watched the Jimmy Fallon performance and thought, "oh man, this band s going to be Smashing Pumpkins kind of huge."

http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/the-joy-formidable-this-ladder-is-ours/n31790

A couple of days later, and while there isn't anything really amazing about the performance, that idea still doesn't seem entirely far-fetched.