JOYFULTALK share “Kill Scene” a new track taken from the incoming album, Plurality Trip (Constellation Records, 24th August)

Kyle Cunjak

JOYFULTALK SHARE “KILL SCENE” A NEW TRACK TAKEN FROM THE INCOMING ALBUM PLURALITY TRIP
(CONSTELLATION RECORDS, 24TH AUGUST)

JOYFULTALK, the twisted junkshop electronic project from Crousetown Nova Scotia, share a new track from their second album, Plurality Trip incoming via Constellation Records on the 24th August. “Kill Scene” is now streaming across mulitple channels, listen below.

The sonic landscapes conjured by JOYFULTALK reflect a curiosity; a tinkered lightfield of forward motion, a maniac’s grove. The brainchild of composer and instrument builder Jay Crocker, JOYFULTALK is without a doubt the most forward-thinking musical act to emerge from the rural outpost of Crousetown, Nova Scotia. Along with fellow compatriot, Calgary transplant and multi-instrumentalist Shawn Dicey, the duo conjures unlikely technicolor material marred as much by the astral plane as by the pair’s rugged maritime environs. With Plurality Trip, JOYFULTALK‘s second full-length album, Crocker’s jazz-fried visions are as starry and precarious as ever.

After a fabled career as an avant-improv regular and go-to homespun producer in Calgary throughout the early aughts, Crocker relocated to Crousetown, a blink-and-you-miss-it hamlet, with his family in 2011. Landing in a grandiose, piecemeal residence tucked in the treeline along the Petite River, Crocker found himself brainlocked: without a music community to partner with, without a social outlet, without economic stability, without any surrounding momentum. To compensate and keep from depressive isolation, Crocker began inventing his own musical partners (The Pink Dolphin, The Cheadle, etc.), a cast of modded synths and cobbled instruments to help realize his own stirring sense of creative unbalance. The resulting material became 2016’s MUUIXX, JOYFULTALK’s first full-length, a record spoken of in hushed tones of reverence, championed for its unlikely Cluster-meets-RZA micro-grooves.