For those unaware, New York’s celebrated pop-rock group Joyous is releasing their debut album! The band formed in 2015 and features lead singer Joy Pratt, who is also the main songwriter, often humming bass lines into her husband & bassist Randy’s ear. Randy Pratt is best known for his work with The Lizards, Cactus and Ruffyunz.

Joy and Randy write the lyrics together. When guitarist Pat Klein noticed the collection of catchy gems the married couple had assembled, he came on board without a second thought. Pat’s voice blends sweetly with Joy. Add perfect pop percussionist Phil Weiss and there was the Joyous sound!

Pat, a world class engineer, and Randy, owner of a world class recording studio, assured the record’s quality (both were members of classic rock legends The Lizards). Pat’s knack for arranging put the finishing touches on this 43-minutes that sounds like a greatest hits collection.

The band did a video themselves in their studio “on the cheap.” Next step is a big production video. Joy wrote a happy, feelgood record for a troubled world. With guest appearances from many of New York’s best players and singers, here it is!

1. Midtown Afternoon
2. Stuyvesant Town
3. Grabbing My Attention
4. Cultivate the Light
5. Luxury
6. Electric Kiss
7. Somedays
8. Whatcha Doin’ to My Heart
9. In The Dark
10. Captured
11. 6 Miles High
12. Out of Time
13. Fun

This delightfully musical, and wholly rhythmic new recording opens on the low hippy stroll of Midtown Afternoon and the more rounder fare of Stuyvesant Town and they are followed by the free flowing rhythms within Grabbing My Attention, the Beatles-esque Cultivate the Light, and then we get the pop-indie rock flow within Luxury brought forth.

Along next is my own personal favorite, the psych summer prance of Electric Kiss and the sterner indie Somedays, and they are in turn backed by the grooved funk lines within Whatcha Doin’ to My Heart, the Yoko-imbibed In The Dark, and then come the melodic Captured, the album rounding out on the countrified 6 Miles High, the low slung Out Of Time, closing on the Modern English-hued Fun.

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