The Grievance Club

"...Joymaykr isn’t all fast-paced hooks and high-minded aspirations; in between calls for worker solidarity and anthemic lines that already feel like a crowd is screaming them back at the band, The Grievance Club work in uniquely poppy takes on ship-capsizing mosh riffs in the climax of penultimate track “Sweepstakes,” dizzy-sick shoegaze influences on “Juniper,” reserved-yet-intricate twinkly guitar work on “Sealegs,” and even a memorably haunting exploration of “making misfortune divine” on acoustic interlude “Two Bells.”
Joymaykr is the kind of eclectic, confident LP that, for most bands, would be two or three albums removed from their debut, but that’s the kind of shake-up that The Grievance Club was founded upon. As Mills states, ever since the band’s founding nearly a decade ago, “It’s been a constant process of recalibrating our perception of ourselves.” Joymaykr sees The Grievance Club squaring their self-image with their aspirations and making a record that can connect with people from all walks of life who identify with The Grievance Club’s efforts “in our personal lives and in our art to close the gap between who we are and who we aim to be.”

- written by Ellie Kovach