Dec 3rd @ Le Klub | Paris [FR]
“At school you didn’t answer to questions about classical authors. You were not interested in participating. You preferred to remember all the epic epithets. You saw beyond the walls of your class. You never remembered your classmates’ names. During school assemblies you used to abstract yourself until you forgot to be alive. The keeper found you standing up alone. It was not cold. In the pockets of your jeans you were keeping chestnut’s leaves and ladybirds.”
JoyCut looks and sounds very attractive on stage. Two drummers sitting face to face and a guy with
machines, both a conductor and author in between them. Electronic, post-rock and dark-wave, often experimental but accessible.
In 2014 they attended more than 150 concerts among U.S. + Canada + Europe.
Having opened and toured with such bands as Arcade Fire, Editors, Art Brut, Modest Mouse and
Sebadoh, the trio won over North American fans on their first full US tour in spring of 2014. The tour not only exposed them to thousands of new North American fans but also to radio (Nic Harcourt of KCSN has become a supporter), commercial scoring (VISA World Cup commercial score secured through their SXSW International Day Stage Performance) and mainstream press (MTV Iggy Artist of the Week in April 2014 and Under The Radar feature in July 2014 issue).
A North American return in the fall of 2014, will take them to new cities as well as have them return
to others where they had great success this past spring.
The band continues to tour in support of their third album, 2013’s "PiecesOfUsWereLeftOnTheGround".
They recently signed an exclusive publishing deal for Sugar Music.
All JoyCut project is 100% tied to our sustainable future.
JoyCut have been invited to play @ Europavox, Canadian Music Week, Monkey Week, Co2penhagen
Festival, I-Day Festival, London Summer Jam, SXSW, Les Nuits, Tallinn Music Week, Vasto Siren, CMJ, Waves Bratislava Festival, Glimps Festival, Eurosonic, MENT, Rock For People.
[For fans of Fuck Buttons, Library Tapes, Harvey Milk, John Maus, Matthew Dear, Neon Indian. Chris
Haughton, Eric Carle. Shameless, Homeland. Christina De Middel & Anthony Goicolea. José Mourinho.]
“Sounds like: A future where robots and humans share organic meals and feelings of hope.” – MTV
Iggy (US)
“The first track on Italian trio JoyCut’s PiecesOfUsWereLeftOnTheGround album, ‘Wireless,’ is
unbelievably sprightly, uplifting, and beautiful.” – The Stranger (US)
“This is music that one can never get enough of.” – Acoustic Music (US)
"For sheer onstage intensity, though, the Glimps gong goes to Italy, and festival-finishers JoyCut. They formed, they toured, they conquered." - Clash Magazine (UK) | Glimps Festival review
"The songs are crafted with a great undertow of twitching melancholy and inventiveness that makes
them hypnotic in their power and imagination.” - Louder Than War (UK) | Waves Bratislava review
