JOYERIA - Fim 12"

Highly recommended.

Over six autobiographical tracks that reckon with ageing, artistry, labour and joy, FIM is at once playful and devastating. A lifetime of pent-up creative frustration is condensed into its sharp, direct lyrics, and gallows humour is sweetened by genuine optimism. “It’s not bad luck, it’s the wrong dream,” Joyeria sings on Performance Review, a song that offsets the chug of 90s indie rock with an ominous static buzz.

90s indie rock with the wheels falling off.

The taste-making London imprint Speedy Wunderground is trusted for uncovering thrilling musical oddities (like Squid and black midi, to name two examples), and together they made such a richly eccentric EP, layered with rattling cowbell and squawks of viola, that it takes a six-piece band to perform it – all to Joy’s delight.

RIYL: Parquet Courts