The Joy Formidable

Staying together as a band for 10 years requires immense tenacity and passion, both of which The Joy Formidable have never lost. That same tenacity echoes in their new unrelenting affecting musical treatise. The songs, melodies, and arrangements on AAARTH soar seamlessly from the personal to the epic sometimes in loneliness, vulnerability, disillusionment, joy, and redemption, but all the while refusing to deny the persistence of our own and other’s imperfectly beautiful humanity. Fernando Chamerelli’s evocative album art frames this vibrant, diverse, and playful melodic and lyrical collage. For a band who never coveted nor chased mainstream success a much wider audience awaits and, as always for this Welsh trio, it arrives on their timeline and will be met on their own terms.