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WON’T BE KICKED OUT OF THE GARDEN(Joyful Noise Recordings)
Add date: 5.27.2025
Release date: 5.30.2025
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WON’T BE KICKED OUT THE GARDEN is a psychological, romantic comedy-drama about holding onto love in a world on edge. Harkening to the original sin, your narrator, joy, is possessed by chaos and impulses of the id—she is/they are the rebel child expelled from paradise, the fallen angel. joy dips in and out of fantasies, fragments into sparring personalities, goes on a discordant bender in Berlin, glides on the heels of saxophones, takes a folk-baroque flight to the moon, and wrestles with dying synthesizer dreams before being called back to Earth by kin, where the only way to return to one’s body is through feeling the pain of grief. There, joy is faced with the trial of re-membering love before the world was split by the binary of good and evil. Your author is inspired by the writing of Ursula K. Le Guin: “To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.”
Produced and mixed by Greg Saunier of Deerhoof (save the vocals and three songs produced by joy), the album was made with main collaborators Laura Fisher and Alex Brownstein, who traveled to Tucson to record with Saunier, as well as with artists Sarah McTaggart (vocals, the earth cries through me), Jermaine Butler (drums, book of longing), Byron Asher (saxophone, easy), Anuraag Pendyal (piano, welcome home), Kenny Zhao (vocals, the fool), and Saunier (drums and slide guitar, owed to spring and the fool).
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Some music artists have out-of-the-box sounds, while others make music that sounds completely out of this world. jess joy is a New Orleans-based multi-disciplinary artist who alchemizes life’s experiences — love, joy, death, and pain — and transforms them into experimental, audible, and visual art expressions. Her music is more than theatrical voice changes, fierce vibratos, wisecracks, and energizing tunes. The lyrics are deep, heartfelt, and often heavy.
joy’s music career began as vocalist for the psychedelic rock band Moon Honey, who toured the country, were lauded by the New York Times as ”whirlwind virtuosity” and by NPR as ”one of those voices cults form around,” played on KEXP Live, and worked with producers John Goodmanson (Blonde Redhead) and Greg Saunier (Deerhoof).
Since their solo debut, joy has released two albums: PATREEARCHY and SOURCEHEIRESS. PATREEARCHY examines the roots and fruits of patriarchy, with joy's voiced likened to the sound of the band Sparks by Bob Boilen on NPR All Songs Considered. SOURCEHEIRESS, a visual album she directed released in 2023, tells a story of reclaiming her power and spirituality. The music was a collaboration with producer and instrumentalist Mike Byrne (ex Smashing Pumpkins).
joy is slated to release a new record, WON’T BE KICKED OUT THE GARDEN, produced by Greg Saunier, on May 30, 2025. The album discusses holding onto love in a world on edge: belonging in polycrisis.
Apple Music
Bandcamp
Official Website
Spotify
Tidal
WON’T BE KICKED OUT THE GARDEN is a psychological, romantic comedy-drama about holding onto love in a world on edge. Harkening to the original sin, your narrator, joy, is possessed by chaos and impulses of the id—she is/they are the rebel child expelled from paradise, the fallen angel. joy dips in and out of fantasies, fragments into sparring personalities, goes on a discordant bender in Berlin, glides on the heels of saxophones, takes a folk-baroque flight to the moon, and wrestles with dying synthesizer dreams before being called back to Earth by kin, where the only way to return to one’s body is through feeling the pain of grief. There, joy is faced with the trial of re-membering love before the world was split by the binary of good and evil. Your author is inspired by the writing of Ursula K. Le Guin: “To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.”
Produced and mixed by Greg Saunier of Deerhoof (save the vocals and three songs produced by joy), the album was made with main collaborators Laura Fisher and Alex Brownstein, who traveled to Tucson to record with Saunier, as well as with artists Sarah McTaggart (vocals, the earth cries through me), Jermaine Butler (drums, book of longing), Byron Asher (saxophone, easy), Anuraag Pendyal (piano, welcome home), Kenny Zhao (vocals, the fool), and Saunier (drums and slide guitar, owed to spring and the fool).
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Some music artists have out-of-the-box sounds, while others make music that sounds completely out of this world. jess joy is a New Orleans-based multi-disciplinary artist who alchemizes life’s experiences — love, joy, death, and pain — and transforms them into experimental, audible, and visual art expressions. Her music is more than theatrical voice changes, fierce vibratos, wisecracks, and energizing tunes. The lyrics are deep, heartfelt, and often heavy.
joy’s music career began as vocalist for the psychedelic rock band Moon Honey, who toured the country, were lauded by the New York Times as ”whirlwind virtuosity” and by NPR as ”one of those voices cults form around,” played on KEXP Live, and worked with producers John Goodmanson (Blonde Redhead) and Greg Saunier (Deerhoof).
Since their solo debut, joy has released two albums: PATREEARCHY and SOURCEHEIRESS. PATREEARCHY examines the roots and fruits of patriarchy, with joy's voiced likened to the sound of the band Sparks by Bob Boilen on NPR All Songs Considered. SOURCEHEIRESS, a visual album she directed released in 2023, tells a story of reclaiming her power and spirituality. The music was a collaboration with producer and instrumentalist Mike Byrne (ex Smashing Pumpkins).
joy is slated to release a new record, WON’T BE KICKED OUT THE GARDEN, produced by Greg Saunier, on May 30, 2025. The album discusses holding onto love in a world on edge: belonging in polycrisis.