Joyrobix, by Joe Snape

Joyrobix

by Joe Snape

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Joe Bates Glittering, glitchy, jittery and emotional. Favorite track: Buried in America.

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1.	Transfigurenation 02:52	buy track
2.	Behind Glass 02:20	buy track
3.	S'vive Urself 02:38	buy track
4.	Grapefruit 02:41 video	buy track
5.	Buried in America 03:11	buy track
6.	Matter With 04:00	buy track
7.	Perspex Feels 02:22	buy track
8.	Arteries 02:58	buy track
9.	Joyrobix 03:26	buy track
10.	Plus One 01:48	buy track

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'Joyrobix' is Brummy-abroad Joe Snape’s flooring return to Slip: a songbook of nimble, aching pop that wrings raggedy solace from dejection and displacement.

Begun as a danceable refix of pieces for chamber ensemble toured the last three years, production on 'Joyrobix' stalled sharply in 2016. Instead of a self-confident exercise in documentation, the record twisted into a darker, more lyrical original: a period portrait of dislocation and burnout following Snape's move to the US in 2015.

There’s still plenty of fun to be had. Between the adult contemporary guitars, gospel grooves, and Broadway melisma, the tropes of a musical America are present, correct, and indefatigably uptempo.

But even at his most playful, Snape sounds like a musical mind running on fumes, the optimistic experimentalism of 2015's 'Brittle Love' audible only through a weary cloud, and the black dog never altogether quieted. Nor could it be: 'Joyrobix' sounds like a working-out – here manic, there taciturn – of a New World dream gone sideways.

'Joyrobix' [SLP047] is available on vinyl LP and download from April 2019. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Artwork by Suze Whaites. Distributed by Boomkat.

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released April 4, 2019

Written and Performed by Joe Snape

Artwork by Suze Whaites
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi

Jesse Chevan drums on tracks 1-9
Will Gardner saxophone on tracks 1, 2, 7 & 9
Suze Whaites oboe on tracks 3, 5 & 9
Laurie Tompkins and Suze Whaites vocals on tracks 3, 6 & 9
Louise Snape cornet on tracks 5 & 8
Owen Roberts bass clarinet on tracks 8 & 9
Weston Olencki trombone on tracks 8 & 9

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