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Joyer – “Wake Up”

May 2, 2024

“Wake Up” is the latest from slowcore brother duo Joyer, off of their album Night Songs. We’ve previously covered Nick and Shane Sullivan with their prior single “Star” here. Interestingly enough, “Wake Up” is the track right before “Star” on the album, with the latter providing a bit more upbeat energy from the former. “Wake Up” is very much a guitar-forward track, featuring a steady stream of distorted geetar that meshes oh so well with Sullivan’s whisper-like vocals (picture perfect, considering the subject). The last minute or so of the track gave me some early Modest Mouse vibes; a sort of extended outro that seems to end just as it coalesces. Fans of Yo La Tengo, They Are Gutting A Body of Water, or SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE would find a lot to enjoy not only with “Wake Up,” but also the album as a whole. You can hear the track on[...]

Joyer – “Star”

February 3, 2024

NYC/Boston based Joyer is the combined talents of brothers Nick & Shane Sullivan, and they just released their new indie/slowcore single, “Star.” The new cut has a wash of layered guitars that shift the tint of the track, each wash feeling like a filter that the song is passing through to get to your ears. Those layers work like sliding wave forms that align for a moment of clarity before passing back into dissonant relation with one another, creating that dispersed guitar sound that feels like wandering in a memory. “Star” uses that slowcore sound adeptly, with the Sullivan brothers pairing their sound with nostalgic daydreams. Here is Joyer talking about their new song; “Star is kind of a slice of life of the summer I was having when I wrote it. It has small fragments of different days. Some boring days at home mixed with bits about camping on[...]