“Sands down the shoegaze scale of the previous record while maintaining its pop melodies, as well as pushing the Joyer arrangements into newly ambitious territory,” so we wrote of the Brooklyn duo’s new album On the Other End of the Line…, forthcoming next month via Julia’s War Recordings. Siblings Nick and Shane Sullivan followed different paths since the release of the previous Joyer album Night Songs last year, forcing them to confront the loneliness of new places at the same time as grappling with post-tour blues, and the experience seems to inform the new record. As though having been faced with a lack of connection, the Sullivan’s endeavoured to utilise music as a uniting force.
After lead single ‘Cure’ introduced the record, detailing “how we search for small moments of connection within the isolation of the contemporary world,” Joyer have now returned with new track ‘Glare of the Beer Can’. A song “about being reminded of someone everywhere you go,” as the band explain. “About seeing that person in both the good and bad things in life.” A phenomenon, they continue, which “adds meaning to the mundane and enhances the beautiful things.” Pairing twangy guitars with punchy drums and featuring supporting vocals from Morgan Powers, the song sits in this half space between reality and daydream, breathing a sense of romance into the ordinary, even if the longing at its heart seems destined to go unsatisfied for a good period yet.
Heard you in the night
And in the dawn
Inside of headphones
And crowded streets
Heard it in my head
And into my dreams
On the Other End of the Line… is out on the 24th October via Julia’s War Recordings and you can pre-order it now from the Joyer Bandcamp page.
