Entertainment For Lively Minds
The Joy Formidable
Posted by theweemo on 4 May 2011 - 2:41pm.
What's it called?:
The Big Roar
What It Sounds Like:
Dave Grohl: clearly a busy man, but even HE bothered - or very nicely asked a lackey if they wouldn't mind awfully - Tweeting that TJF’s Whirring was ‘the song of the year.’Dave, I concur.I haven’t this album *off* since it barged into my ears a thoroughly overdue two months ago. Massive, drummy, powerful, The Big Roar doesn’t half;it has literally been fired from a bloody Rock Cannon.The fabulously-monikered Ritzy Bryan sings with whispery force in perfect counterpoint to instruments having the shit thrashed out of them.The tracks are a hypnotic combination of drive and relent,resulting in what I can only, with a shocking lack of poetry,describe as dark-lullabies (prime example: ‘Buoy’). The bounce and batter of ‘Cradle’ is marvellous fun - the ‘ooh-oohs’ especially (yes, here they get a permit). And the glorious ‘Austere', those opening drums impatiently jostling behind the vocals before the big red LAUNCH button gets pressed at 1 minute 13 seconds.Tremendous.
What Does It All "Mean"?:
That liking the same music as your - cool, mind - 15-year old niece can be acceptable.I haven’t indulged in this sort of volume knob abuse in an absolute age.
Oh, and that your private ear doctor is about to finally be able to afford his yacht.
Goes well with...:
Beer. Effective headphones. Cardigans (see below).
Might Suit People Who Like...:
Foo Fighters, Breeders, Nirvana, premature deafness. Female guitarists who make playing an electric guitar in a cardi look HOT. (Google: the joy formidable, the magnifying glass, thealternateside.com)
I'm a fan..
I stumbled across them via the Radio Nowhere podcast a couple of years ago and snapped up the mail order mini album 'A Balloon Called Moaning'. I'm amazed they're not bigger to be honest.
The Joy!
Seen them live a coupe of times now in Leeds. The first time they were amazing – I was really impressed; lively songs, sound crisp live and the lead singer is lovely to look at too!
Second time was bizarre! They spent forever sound checking and tuning before they came on. First the roadies, then actual band members - must have been over an hour between the support act finishing and them finally coming on. They’d seem to have lost a bit of sparkle from the first time.
if you like that, you might like
Silver Sun Pickups and The Secret Machines
thank you Mr Blast
I have actually been enjoying SIlversun Pickups very much.
never heard of them
til today - they're very good aren't they? Remind me a bit of Belly who I like a lot.
A bit late to this thread but...
this is quite a good (acoustic) version of Whirring. The jury's out over whether the ending is worth the effort...
yes, I saw that on the tube and was also
...in Brighton for that Great Escape fest and saw TJF at (the satisfactorily intimate) Hector's house. Stupendous. I just stood there at the end of Whirring that night having my grinning face blown off by guitars.
Odd question perhaps,
but is 'formidable' pronounced in the English or French way?
edit: Just watched the start of the clip above and answered my own question.
either options
must sound excellent in a Welsh accent.