The Big More - EP
The Joy Formidable
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Cradle | The Joy Formidable | 2:46 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Cradle (Fang Island Remix) | The Joy Formidable | 3:19 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Anemone | The Joy Formidable | 4:10 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Whirring (Live) | The Joy Formidable | 10:03 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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It's Over | The Joy Formidable | 3:08 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 5 Songs |
iTunes Review
After the celebrated release of its Welsh Music Prize–nominated debut, The Big Roar, the dream-pop trio The Joy Formidable delivers this cool companion EP The Big More. It opens with the catchy cut “Cradle,” where Ritzy Bryan’s Fender Stratocaster drives the tune like a juggernaut of distortion as she animatedly sings over a rhythm section trying to keep up. Fang Island follows with a remix of “Cradle” that sounds as if the New York band snuck into The Joy Formidable’s recording studio, swiped the song’s masters, and took them back to their Brooklyn sound laboratory where weird beats, UFO-sounding synths, backward guitars, and other crazy noises were added to the mix. “Anemone” downshifts into a smoldering song where gauzy guitar ambience accompanies Bryan’s Björk-esque inflections. The song’s last minute offers a surprise explosion of pummeling chords that ring and chime over an orbiting bass and drum kit to make for a panoramic sound. Fans of the band’s stage performances are sure to delight in a live version of “Whirring” before “It’s Over” closes like Siouxsie Sioux gone shoegazer.
Customer Reviews
Not quite big, not quite more
Being that I'm such a big fan of TJF, I can't give this any less than 4 stars, but if it were almost any other band, it would recieve a lower rating. Based on the title, one would expect a continuation on The Big Roar, but instead, we were given a track that was already on A Balloon Called Moaning as well as The Big Roar, a so-so remix of the same song, one pretty great song that should have been on The Big Roar, a really good live performance of Whirring (but it's still a live track), and a Roy Orbison cover. It's not a bad EP, but it's just not what it could have and should have been. This band is great, but there are better releases than this. I was personally hoping for something that I hadn't heard before and they failed to deliver that. But at the end of it, it's still The Joy Formidable and they're still one of my favorite bands ever.
The Big More - EP
This is one great band, but they need to move beyond Whirring -- although live it's incredible. Cradle's a great song; unfortunately the remix is a step back. It's tough to cover Roy Orbison of all people. But again, I wish only the best for these folks. Perhaps re-working some Sidecar Kisses? :)
ok lets move on to some new stuff
I love this band and was telling all far and wide to check them out way before they became "it" and had any releases on itunes...I know yawn...but the point is this, I wish they would focus on NEW songs and a NEW record, I agree with the others stop giving me songs I have already heard. The cover is "ok" the remix of Cradle is "ok-ish at best" and Whirring is live so eh I like this band live but prefer the actual recording so this is just "ok" as well
Biography
Formed: 2007 in Mold, Wales
Genre: Alternative
Years Active: '00s, '10s
Top Albums and Songs By The Joy Formidable
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Whirring | The Big Roar | 6:47 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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A Heavy Abacus | The Big Roar | 3:40 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Endtapes | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Pt. 1 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Deluxe Version] | 4:09 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Whirring | A Balloon Called Moaning | 3:34 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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The Greatest Light Is the Greatest Shade | A Balloon Called Moaning | 5:20 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Cradle | The Big Roar | 2:46 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Austere | The Big Roar | 3:30 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Whirring | Whirring - Single | 6:47 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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The Greatest Light Is the Greatest Shade | The Big Roar | 5:19 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Austere | A Balloon Called Moaning | 3:04 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
- $4.99
- Genres: Alternative, Music, Indie Rock, Rock, Adult Alternative
- Released: Oct 14, 2011
- ℗ 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
