{"id":163,"date":"2008-07-24T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejoycollective.co.uk\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2009-07-26T22:19:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T22:19:27","slug":"preview-ep-release-joy-of-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/review\/releases\/preview-ep-release-joy-of-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy of Sex &#8211; EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/jonnyjaniero.wpengine.com\/thejoycollective\/uploaded_images\/joyofs-778172.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/jonnyjaniero.wpengine.com\/thejoycollective\/uploaded_images\/joyofs-778170.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>Joy of Sex release their debut self titled EP through their Robot Architect label on the 18th of August it will be accompanied by the free download &#8220;December, Month Of Plenty&#8221; released through Sound and Vision Downloads on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Joy of Sex are a new three-piece from Cardiff, two boys and a girl, with a drum machine, stand-up drums and three-way vocals. They agree on several things. Short songs, rhythm, repetition, noise.<\/p>\n<p>Combining menacing cut-up rhythms with triple-barrelled vocal interplay that switches from sinister to playful; a unique concoction that&#8217;s reminiscent of the taut art-punk dynamics of Wire. They hint at the electro post punk of PiL and share a kinship with fellow Cardiffian&#8217;s The Victorian English Gentlemen&#8217;s Club.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s form meeting function. Newness, not novelty. Equality. Clang, scrape and bang. That is the Joy of Sex.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;December, Month Of Plenty&#8221; opens with a chorus of plaintive refrains, before rumbling along pavements of twitching bass and drums. Serrated guitars bleed like a stream of consciousness into a chanting chorus reminiscent of Mission of Burma&#8217;s finer moments. Short and sharp, clocking in at around the two minute mark. <\/p>\n<p>Public download will appear here on the 18th of August:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samu.co.uk\/sound&#038;visiondownloads.html\">http:\/\/www.samu.co.uk\/sound&#038;visiondownloads.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy of Sex release their debut self titled EP through their Robot Architect label on the 18th of August it will be accompanied by the free download &#8220;December, Month Of Plenty&#8221; released through Sound and Vision Downloads on the same day. Joy of Sex are a new three-piece from Cardiff, two boys and a girl, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747],"tags":[629],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases","tag-joy-of-sex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}