Name: Everyone Is Searching For Beautiful Things
Brand: Band Of Holy Joy

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

PICI0036CD

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Black

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-08-26

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

76625972725

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Total Cap

2 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Band Of Holy Joy

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Tiny Global Productions

Band Of Holy Joy emerged from the remnants of a '77 punk band called Speed. Initially experimenting with industrial bricolage and occasional bursts of madness, they later embraced humanist tendencies in their music. With founder Johny Brown's sharp sensibilities, the band signed with Rough Trade and released classics like Rosemary Smith and Mad Dot. Despite setbacks, a new Band Of Holy Joy has blossomed as an art collective, incorporating visual artist Inga Tillere's influence. Their 2017 release FUNAMBULIST WE LOVE YOU examines contemporary malaise.

The Band Of Holy Joy 2019 model is a sleek beat outfit that blends indie music with Brechtian connotations. They forge forward without dwelling on lineage or being dragged back by history. Quietly growing and gestating for years, they have now emerged fully reborn with renewed purpose of sound and vision.

Similar Artists: Brix Smith, Sarabeth Tucek, Arborist, The Blue Aeroplanes, Angelica Rockne, The Bluebells, The Natural Lines, Dexys, HOUSE Of ALL, Cian Nugent,
Riders Of The Canyon,
David Brewis,
Hollow Hand,
Simon Rowe,
The Wedding Present,
Lichen Slow,
Those Pretty Wrongs,
James Howard,
James &amp; The Giants,
Robert Forster

The reimagined and reworked version of Band Of Holy Joy's Dreams Take Flight album, plus a full concert recording from the band's 2021 UK tour on 2xCDs.

Band Of Holy Joy have mutated endlessly since their origin as a kind of trashbin industrial folk collective, through early experiments in an intensely poetic form of ambient postpunk which produced cult faves like "Rosemary Smith", to near chart-contenders on a then-failing Rough Trade with songs as beautiful as anything by The Pogues, free of bitterness but with greater heart . . . and more recently onward to a series of albums of gently anthemic social culture and political critique.

A new album in the making will add another dimension to the work of Johny Brown and his ever-evolving band, but until those sessions see the light of day, the band have created two albums from recent work, a compelling audio verité remix of the last full length, Neon Primitives, and a fine live show from their last tour dates. Both sets are available here alone, on a double compact disc with magnificent art from Inga Tillere. 

Everyone Is Searching For Beautiful Things

Music GB