Joyful Joyful

Joyful Joyful – Joyful Joyful (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:29 minutes | 608 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Experimental
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Idée Fixe Records

The idea that you can interpret any sound audible in the environment around you as music isn’t a foreign concept to me. Yet, hearing Joyful Joyful vocalist Cormac Culkeen recall singing along to the drone of their microwave early on in their life during a recent interview gave me pause. What I instinctively understood at that moment, after immersing myself in Joyful Joyful’s exultant debut eponymous album, is that Culkeen is one of those rare artists that have to make music as part of their nature. It’s not a hobby or interest for them; it’s as fundamental to their survival as breathing, eating, and drinking. Culkeen has a kindred spirit in their Joyful Joyful collaborator Dave Grenon. The two attract each other like magnets as if they each somehow complete the other.
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Joyful Joyful – Joyful Joyful (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:29 minutes | 608 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Experimental
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Idée Fixe Records

The idea that you can interpret any sound audible in the environment around you as music isn’t a foreign concept to me. Yet, hearing Joyful Joyful vocalist Cormac Culkeen recall singing along to the drone of their microwave early on in their life during a recent interview gave me pause. What I instinctively understood at that moment, after immersing myself in Joyful Joyful’s exultant debut eponymous album, is that Culkeen is one of those rare artists that have to make music as part of their nature. It’s not a hobby or interest for them; it’s as fundamental to their survival as breathing, eating, and drinking. Culkeen has a kindred spirit in their Joyful Joyful collaborator Dave Grenon. The two attract each other like magnets as if they each somehow complete the other.
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