The Joy Formidable Announce New LP 'AAARTH', Share New Single The Wrong Side
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Written by Laura Johnson
The Joy Formidable have announced a new album.
'AAARTH', the follow up to 2016's 'Hitch', will arrive on September 28 via Hassle Records. Speaking about it, guitarist Ritzy Bryan explained:
“With life not always being that kind, you can either go down a really dark hole or you can smear yourself with colour and reverie and try to forget. That’s what we did with AAARTH; we threw ourselves into this beautiful vivacious collage of experimentation, real meets unreal, and stopped giving a fuck about things that didn’t matter, and started caring more about the things that are worth your time.”
“We’ve definitely made a colourful, mystical collage with this record, partly because of our surroundings. Those multi-coloured sunsets & the primeval elements of nature in the Southwest – it’s emboldened our imaginations in the songwriting and the production. I love stories and seeing symbolism and meaning change with different cultures and interpretations. I see it in my lyrics, a lot of the imagery plays on being ambivalent because I’m often expressing a lot of things at once. That’s true of the title; it falls somewhere between a scream, an exaltation, a play on words, and then this motif of the bear (“arth” in Welsh) that spiritually represents strength, wisdom & healing.”
Head below to listen to their new single, The Wrong Side, and check out the artwork and tracklist for the record.
'AAARTH' tracklist:
1. Y Bluen Eira
2. The Wrong Side
3. Go Loving
4. Cicada (Land on Your Back)
5. All in All
6. What For
7. The Better Me
8. Absence
9. Dance of the Lotus
10. You Can’t Give Me
11. Caught on a Breeze
The Welsh trio will play headline shows in London and Cardiff prior to their sets at Reading and Leeds in August. In early September they will head to the US to support Foo Fighters and at the end of the month will return to the UK for in-store performances in Nottingham, Bristol and London.
The Joy Formidable Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Wed August 22 2018 - LONDON Lexington
Thu August 23 2018 - CARDIFF Clwb Ifor Bach
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