Listening to Joyer’s “Fall Apart” it’s perhaps easy to imagine it’s like a Yo La Tengo song sped up but layered with a catastrophic noise partway through. The latter pairs well with the lyrics about an impulse to do things that make one fall apart. Why? Maybe the things that feel like everything is all together feels like you’re too bound up with limitations that come from social conditioning and conforming to a society where a certain kind of order is valued that can feel like oppression. Maybe the song is about mountain anxiety the release from which can only be indulging in what feels like you’re not clinging so tightly a way of being and living that don’t suit you. It’s a song that seems to acknowledge mental health struggles and a will to be free of them even that means yearning for acting in ways that are counter to what you’ve been told is well and good when part of you is aware that those words were not completely valid all along. Listen to “Fall Apart” on Spotify and follow Joyer at the links below. The group’s new album Night Songs drops April 26, 2024 via North Records/Julia’s War Records on digital and limited edition vinyl.
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