Thursday 04 December 2008
Brand new start
(photo: Autumn de Wilde)
There’s more than a little joy on Little Joy‘s self-titled debut album. In fact it’s chock full of music that would beautifully soundtrack a South American vacation slideshow of snapshots featuring your hot aunt with nothing but a scant bikini and almost drawn-on tan lines, a group of inebriated hotel guests sipping concoctions crammed with crushed ice and tropical fruit, and a pair of star-crossed, lovers standing at the edge of heaven with the sun setting behind them. Oh, and there’s Pablo, the charming bellhop whose broken English was just a hoot, a real hoot! Hoot!
Really, though, Little Joy is Fabrizio Moretti (The Strokes), Binki Shapiro, and Brazilian musician Rodrigo Amarante (Los Hermanos) . The three holed themselves up in an L.A. studio to record this delightfully compact, charming record. It certainly recalls an era when bossa nova and Brazilian jazz began permeating popular music, but it’s not a retro-sounding album. The combination of each individual members musical history forms a new musical hybrid that’s informed with familiar sounds, but combines them in a new way. That sounds like a lot of double-speak, but take my word for it, this is the perfect antidote to the winter blahs that are going to start to creep in any day now.
MP3: Little Joy “Brand New Start”
Myspace: Little Joy
Buy: Little Joy Little Joy at Amazon | Insound | iTunes
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