01/09/2023
Bandcamp Friday!!!!!�Our new album Elvehjem is available now, here: �spiraljoyband.bandcamp.com/album/elvehjem (https://spiraljoyband.bandcamp.com/album/elvehjem)��Available digitally, as LP on its own or bundled with previous LP releases for a 10% discount!!! ��Of Elvehjem, Bill Meyer writes:�Without Saturn, you got no rings, right? It’s easy to see Spiral Joy Band as a similarly orbital entity, forever existing in relation to its parent band, Pelt. But, just as all those hunks of space rock would feel equally substantial if your rocket ship hit them whilst circling a planet or floating on their own through the galaxy, Spiral Joy Band has demonstrated on the recent archival recordings culled from its Wisconsin sojourn in the early 2010s, it has been its own thing, and that thing is pretty solid. Elvehjem is another album-length excerpt from Patrick Best, Mikel Dimmick and Troy Schafer’s trove of basement jams, and on this one, they assert an identity separate from Pelt. Sure, there’s plenty of long bell and gong tones, but there’s also some guitar and amp activity that’ll singe your whiskers with sheer crackle action. �(dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/726637654177906688/dust-volume-nine-number-nine (https://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/726637654177906688/dust-volume-nine-number-nine))��Meyer echoes Byron Coley's previously reported observations:�There is a crackling, noise energy curtain surrounding much of the playing here...a certain rockist element lurking inside Spiral Joy Band's music (which supplanted the overt hayseed elements of their original iteration) and the direction and manner of their clangor here has the weight of rock rather than something more ephemeral. [...] The drones are often created with a searing metallic edge, and their spiky protuberances brook no guff. If that ain't rock, at least attitudinally, I'll eat your fu***ng hat.��We are, of course ever grateful for the words of these two esteemed fellows. ��We would likew
ise, though, love to hear the words of our supporters, so come along now, feel it on your own--get your copy or bundled copy!��Much love,�SJB
Spiral Joy Band The music plays on through the end of the most disastrous summer in living memory, with Maui on fire and Arizona broiled beneath a heat dome and Vermont swept away in a 100- maybe...
