Joyer – Cure
East Coast indie rock brothers Nick and Shane Sullivan return as Joyer with ‘Cure,’ released last week but featured here due to vacation timing—because good music doesn’t have an expiration date.
This first glimpse of their upcoming album On The Other End of the Line… arrives October 24 via Julia’s War Recordings. A move of cities – Nick from Brooklyn to Philadelphia, Shane from Boston to Brooklyn – the band may have got closer physically, but tackle their shared distance & displacement as something unexpectedly emotive.
Engineered by Kevin De Kimpe at Palisade Studios in Chicago and produced by Slow Pulp’s Henry Stoehr, ‘Cure’ abandons some shoegaze weight of 2024’s Night Songs for a more playful and distorted approach to the guitars. It was written from the perspective of an imaginary character, but with private solitude seeping into each note. This song is dedicated to those fleeting goodwill gestures: a bartender’s smile, proper at least, or a telephone operator’s patience, correct only for our loneliness.
The accompanying music video is shot through with warm, yellow hues and captures New York every day moments: pigeons on fire escapes and laundry dancing in the humid air, rooftops overlooking a city that never sleeps.
Teaser on their forthcoming album unfolds a far closer fusion of the two and imagination, tempered through guitar pop from the ‘90s.
Tracklist:
- I Know Your Secret
- Cure
- Creases
- Glare of the Beer Can
- Spell
- Something to Prove
- Favorite
- At the Movies
- Test
- Tell Me
