Jul 16, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the 27th Songs of the Week of 2021. There wasn’t an onslaught of amazing new songs this week, but we liked enough to come up with a solid Top 10. More

Jul 13, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Welsh rockers The Joy Formidable are releasing a new album, Into the Blue, on August 20 via Enci Records. Now they have shared a new single from it, “Chimes,” via a self-directed video featuring lead singer and guitarist Ritzy Bryan performing along to the song in a barn, along with an animated bird. More

May 07, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Welsh rockers The Joy Formidable have announced a new album, Into the Blue, and shared a new song from it, “Back to Nothing.” More

Mar 26, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Welsh rockers The Joy Formidable have shared a brand new song, “Into the Blue,” via a video for the track. It’s the band’s first new single since their 2018 album, AAARTH. More

May 14, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

A new one-day festival, Pasadena Daydream Festival, has been announced. It is headlined by goth legends The Cure and the lineup was also curated by the band. More

Aug 06, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Joy Formidable are releasing a new album, AAARTH, on September 28 via Hassle. Now the Welsh trio have shared a video for its first single, “The Wrong Side.” The video company TRLLM directed the psychedelic clip, which you can watch below. More

May 06, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our May/June 2016 issue (out May, June, and into July), which has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon. It will also soon be available digitally via Under the Radar‘s app, and the magazine apps Zinio, Readly, and Readbug. The issue features M83 on the cover. More

Apr 04, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The Joy Formidable released their new album, Hitch, a couple of weeks back on the band’s own label, C’Mon Lets Drift, in partnership with Caroline (US), Orchard/Membran (Europe), and MapleMusic (Canada). Now the Welsh trio has announced some more North American tour dates that take them across the country through July. More

Jan 26, 2016 By Mark Redfern

The Joy Formidable have announced a new album and shared a NSFW video for its first single, “The Last Thing on My Mind.” Hitch is due out March 25 on the Welsh trio’s own label, C’Mon Lets Drift, in partnership with Caroline (US), Orchard/Membran (Europe), and MapleMusic (Canada). The album was self-produced by the band and recorded at The Red Brick studios in the Welsh hills. Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails) mixed the album. Below is the tracklisting and their upcoming tour dates. More

Dec 13, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Yesterday it was revealed that Box Of Stars,, a non-profit that raises awareness for mental health, was attempting to launch a tribute album for singer/songwriter Mark Linkous, a.k.a. Sparklehorse, who tragically committed suicide in 2010. More

Jan 21, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

This week Welsh rock trio The Joy Formidable will release their sophomore LP Wolf’s Law. More

Nov 09, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

The Joy Formidable will kick 2013 off with their signature, distortion-heavy guitar shredding when they release Wolf’s Law, the sophomore follow-up to their 2011 debut The Big Roar. More

Sep 28, 2012 By Laura Studarus

The Joy Formidable is hitting the road in support of their forthcoming album Wolf’s Law (out this January). More

Sep 07, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

A while back anthem amp exploders The Joy Formidable announced the release of their forthcoming sophomore album Wolf’s Law, releasing a video for a song sharing the same name. More

May 08, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Welsh rock trio The Joy Formidable have announced that they have completed recording for their forthcoming sophomore album. More

Mar 12, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Uber-amplified rock trio The Joy Formidable have premiered a coloful music video for their latest single “A Heavy Abacus,” featured on the group’s breakthrough album The Big Roar. More

Feb 03, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

The 11th annual Sasquatch Music Festival has announced its official lineup of artists, including Jack White, Bon Iver, Tenacious D, The Shins, St. Vincent, Feist, The Roots, Beirut, and Beck. More

Nov 14, 2019 By Dom Gourlay

Time really does fly when you’re having fun and making great records. Which is something The Joy Formidable can testify to. Formed in the North Wales border town of Mold back in 2007, they’ve earned a reputation as one of the most consistent and engaging live bands over the past decade, while releasing four critically acclaimed albums in the process. More

Jun 22, 2016 By Mike Hilleary

In the opening seconds of “The Last Thing on My Mind,” the lead single off The Joy Formidable‘s third album, Hitch, listeners are provided an ears-only glimpse of the band before the final count in to the song’s thumping, ever-present riff. More

Jan 21, 2013 By Under the Radar Staff

For Under the Radar‘s 10th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2012. Pick up the Best of 2012 issue to read many of the responses. We are also posting additional web-exclusive artist survey interviews to the website. Here are responses from Ritzy Bryan of The Joy Formidable. More

Sep 25, 2018 By Haydon Spenceley

The new album by The Joy Formidable is being self-released on their own label Seradom. Whatever the reason for AAARTH (an aggressive-sounding title I’m sure you’ll agree) being released in this way, one thing is abundantly clear from the outset: the freedom suits The Joy Formidable. More

Mar 23, 2016 By J. Pace

The Joy Formidable continue on their single-minded path toward sheer scale, this time around taking things a little more slowly in the studio. In fact, the band started by building a studio, The Red Brick, in their native Wales, then spent 12 months recording the album themselves. More

Jan 29, 2013 By Frank Valish

With its 2011 debut, The Big Roar, The Joy Formidable helped to usher in a new wave of ‘90s nostalgia, with grungy guitars galore and alterna-happy songwriting that very often seemed to favor general sonic assault over pure song craft. The sound was hauntingly familiar, almost too much so, like The Smashing Pumpkins heard for the hundredth time on alternative radio, yet it also managed to bring back those halcyon years when heavy-guitar bombast was all the rage. More