Sometimes, an album falls in your midst that not only resonates with your exact time and place, but also compels you to share it with the world. Springtime's self-titled debut is one of those albums. 

Gareth Liddiard (Tropical Fuck Storm / The Drones), Jim White (Dirty Three / Xylouris White) and Chris Abrahams (The Necks) are Springtime—a new endeavor that is as much a tonal experiment as it is a meditation on modern-day absurdity. Their forthcoming album uses free jazz, apocalyptic lyricism crafted alongside renowned Irish poet Ian Duhig, and improvisation to craft austere portraits of a world paralyzed by shellshock. 

As we brace ourselves for another wintertime hellscape, this album is an ideal companion. Maybe within these rants, raves, and melodies we may find an answer to the question, “What fresh hell will this new season bring?”

Springtime will be released on November 5, 2021, and is now available for pre-order on vinyl, CD, and Digital. Stream the lead single "Will to Power” here!

Springtime
Springtime
Release Date: November 5, 2021
Vinyl Release Date: December, 2021

1. Will To Power
2. Viaduct Love Suicide
3. Jeanie In A Bottle
4. She Moved Through The Fair
5. The Island
6. West Palm Beach
7. The Killing Of The Village Idiot

A few months ago, we introduced you to our newest roster addition Cedric Noel, and now we’ve got a bit more of good news...Cedric will be releasing his new album (and vinyl debut) via Joyful Noise!

Over the last decade, Cedric has released a number of critically praised full-length albums, EPs and collaborative works of his own, while also playing bass for acts like Ada Lea, Alexia Avina, and Dana Gavanski. His music is informed by his unique worldview: He was born in Niger to Canadian and Mozambican/Belgian parents, spent his upbringing in 9 different countries on 5 continents, and is currently based in Montreal.

His new LP, Hang Time, is a high water mark in the young artist’s already deep catalog. Hang Time shifts fluidly between rock, folk pop and ambient elements, holding tensions and untangling complex truths. Written during a period of intense self-reflection, Hang Time digs into what it means to be disconnected from place/ancestry, adopted into a multi-racial family, what it is to be Black man in a predominantly white scene, and how one can arrive at a place of pride amidst the multiplicity of self.

Featuring contributions from Squirrel Flower, Liam O’Neil (SUUNS), and more, Hang Time is a showcase of an artist and the community that he has built around relentless work ethic and musical experimentation.

Hang Time will be released on November 12, 2021, and is now available for pre-order on Limited Edition VIP vinyl, Rose Red vinyl, CD, Cassette, and Digital. Stream the opening track “Comuu” here!

Cedric Noel
Hang Time
Release Date: November 12, 2021
Vinyl Release Date: January 21, 2022

1. Comuu
2. Headspace
3. Keep
4. Stilling
5. Bass Song
6. Born 
7. Dove
8. A Hold On Losing
9. Okayokay
10. Allies
11. Nighttime (Skin)
12. Hang Time
13. Cozy

Deerhoof has made a valiant return to this raging brushfire of a world with just what we needed: A brand new album! "It is two guitars-bass-drums-vocals and it is loud but only if you play it loud which please feel free to do."

Produced by Deerhoof (Satomi Matsuzaki, Ed Rodriguez, John Dieterich, and Greg Saunier), the band's eighteenth studio album finds the prolific Earth-based band using their agility, wit, and outlandishness to create a new shared language of revolution, one powered by lyrical labyrinths and thrashing melodies. With this "baroque gone DIY" LP, Deerhoof proves that anything—from consistent creative reinvention 25 years deep into a career to self-actualization in the midst of global upheaval—is possible.

Preorders are available here. You can also stream the album's debut single, "Department of Corrections," (along with a lovingly created stop-motion video by JNR's own jess joy) today! 

Deerhoof
Actually, You Can
Release Date: October 22, 2021
Vinyl Release Date: November 19, 2021

1. Be Unbarred, O Ye Gates of Hell
2. Department of Corrections
3. We Grew, and We Are Astonished
4. Scarcity is Manufactured
5. Ancient Mysteries, Described
6. Plant Thief
7. Our Philosophy Is Fiction
8. Epic Love Poem
9. Divine Comedy

The album announcement train is cruising full speed ahead at JNR HQ! We're thrilled to let you know that two years following their breakthrough album Almost, The Ophelias are returning with Crocus.

Crocus retains the complexity of Almost, but revels in the newfound confidence bolstered by the growth and change the band has undergone. Contrasting their trademark lyrical clarity with lush arrangements, The Ophelias’ growth has been marked — so much has been transformed and rebuilt. Crocus is a safe haven, built with trust, love, and the assuredness that comes with growing up.

The VIP Edition of Crocus, limited to 400 hand-numbered copies, is pressed on Gardener's Green Vinyl AND includes an Orange Crush bonus 7" Flexi-Disc!

Preorders are available here. You can now hear the album's lead single, "Neil Young on High" (featuring the incredible Julien Baker), here.

The Ophelias
Crocus
Release Date: September 24, 2021
Vinyl Estimated Date: November 12, 2021

1. Crocus
2. Sacrificial Lamb 
3. Neil Young On High (feat. Julien Baker)
4. Vapor
5. Spirit Sent
6. Biblical Names
7. Mastermind
8. Becoming A Nun
9. Spitting Image
10. Under Again
11. The Twilight Zone
12. Vices

Just what we needed amidst a year-plus of global pandemonium: A new album from Tropical Fuck Storm!

Most of us have lived some inner Tropical Fuck Storm over this past year and a half. Even for a band that’s made a career out of crafting songs attuned to political and social crisis, there was a new bleak in the air for Tropical Fuck Storm, what the band calls “give-a-fuck fatigue.” The third album from the avant-punk quad—aptly titled Deep States—mines familiar ground as well as new cultural terrains, while digging deeper into the subjective state of contemporary panic. 

As the signs of latest crisis subside, and the dull ache of awareness with it, Deep States will be here to remind us that there is no foreseeable end to human folly or to the creativity that resists it. Over the past few years, we’ve all heard the noise in our own heads. Tropical Fuck Storm has made music of it.

The VIP Edition vinyl is limited to 500 hand-numbered copies on Yellow & Orange Moonphase Vinyl AND a yellow bonus 7" Flexi-Disc! (NOTE: The VIP Edition is now sold out!)

Orange Vinyl, Cassette, CD, and Digital are available for preorder here. Listen to the album's first single, "G.A.F.F." (Give A Fuck Fatigue), here.

Tropical Fuck Storm
Deep States
Release Date: August 20, 2021
Vinyl Estimated Date: November 12, 2021

1. The Greatest Story Ever told
2. G.A.F.F.
3. Blue Beam Baby
4. Suburbiopia
5. Bumma Sanger
6. The Donkey
7. Reporting Of A Failed Campaign
8. New Romeo Agent
9. Legal Ghost
10. The Confinement Of The Quarks

What a joy it is to say these words: A new SUUNS album is on the way!

Self-recorded and self-produced over the majority of 2020 – through a year of strife, solitude and reflection – The Witness finds the band holding a magnifying glass over their own default state of playing and performing. “There’s something interesting about the idea of a collective witness, being a witness to the time we’re living in now,” vocalist-guitarist Ben Shemie reflects. Though the world is becoming a more distorted, confusing place, The Witness extends a sonic lifeline to latch onto, one bolstered by years of friendship, chemistry and trust.

The VIP Edition is pressed on the unique vinyl color pictured below – which we're calling 'Black and Pink Pinwheel' vinyl – and is limited to 500 hand-numbered copies, including an exclusive bonus flexi-disc of SUUNS cover of Colder's "Crazy Love." 

Pre-order your copy in any format here. Listen to the new track, "Witness Protection" here.

SUUNS
The Witness
Release Date: September 3, 2021

1. Third Stream
2. Witness Protection
3. C-Thru
4. Timebender
5. Clarity
6. The Fix
7. Go To My Head
8. The Trilogy

Our third installment of the 2021 White Label Series is:

YUNIS
The Blue Djinn Dance
Curated by Heba Kadry

Following 2020's This Devastating Map, Jason Albertini has solidified and simplified the Helvetia sound with Essential Aliens. The character of the recordings are informed with warm fuzz and intimate room sounds. The songs are short blasts of psychedelic chill, unrooted by genre, a rummage around an alien radio dial. 

Available for preorder now, Essential Aliens will be available on Digital, "Ectoplasm Clear" Vinyl, and Limited Edition VIP Vinyl. The VIP Edition is pressed on the unique vinyl color pictured below – which we're calling "Cerulean Blue Inside Ectoplasm Clear" vinyl.

VIP Edition Vinyl is limited to 400 pressed to Cerulean Blue inside 'Ectoplasm Clear' vinyl with yellow and white splatter. Includes bonus 7" Flexi of unreleased track "For Sam," written in memory of Sam Jayne (Love as Laughter).

Pre-order 'Essential Aliens' in any format here! And listen to the album's first single, "New Mess" right here!

Helvetia
Essential Aliens
Release Date: June 25, 2021

1. Not So Infinite Life of Weird
2. Crooks Go In The Ground
3. New Mess
4. Jumper
5. Claw
6. That Strange Pull
7. Rocks On The Ramp
8. Star Hinged Trap
9. Caroline Stays / The Al Snatch
10. Why Am I Missing
11. The Echo Creek
12. Does It Go Backwards
13. Better Get Gifted
14. Skit 8

If you were as enchanted with No Joy's 2020 album Motherhood as we were, then we've got quite the treat for you. No Joy has revisited and reinvented some of her favorite tracks for the new EP Can My Daughter See Me From Heaven.

CMDSMFH sees principal songwriter Jasamine White-Gluz mining and exploring fresh avenues, bringing you an orchestral interpretation of choice tracks from Motherhood. Once again pulling sonically from every corner she's mastered before—such as nu metal, trip hop, and shoegaze—the 5-song EP shows White-Gluz settling No Joy into a strange and confident harmony. 

Highlighting the urgency of Motherhood while continuing to find formidable shapes of reinvention, the EP defies expectation and genre, cementing No Joy as something rare: a band without a category.

Available on Digital, Blue Glitter Cassette, and Limited 'Mood Ring Coffin' Cassette (*SOLD OUT*) – limited to just 100 hand-numbered copies, each uniquely hand-painted by Jasamine White-Gluz herself. Both cassette versions feature expanded 6-panel j-card artwork, and include digital download. 

Order 'Can My Daughter See Me From Heaven' in cassette or digital formats here.

Listen to the new track, "Kidder - From Heaven," out now!

No Joy
Can My Daughter See Me From Heaven
Release Date: May 19, 2021

1. Kidder - From Heaven
2. Fish - From Heaven
3. Four - From Heaven
4. Teenager - From Heaven (Deftones cover)
5. Dream Rats - From Heaven

Today we are pleased to announce the new album from the hairy man behind Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, and The Folk Implosion...The one and only, Lou Barlow!

Over the last 18 months, we at Joyful Noise have engaged in an experiment with Lou Barlow known as the "Artist Enabler Club". This incredible series consisted of countless new and archival songs being released in limited formats to club members – and had the effect of creating a ton of amazing music that wouldn't have existed otherwise. The culmination of this creative experiment is the new LP, Reason To Live.

Featuring 17 new songs, this is Lou Barlow’s first full-length in 6 years (since 2015's Brace The Wave). A special early edition of Reason To Live (complete with unique hand-made artwork) was recently distributed amongst Lou's loyal Artist Enabler Club members. But on 5/28 the album will be released for the rest of the world – available on Light Blue Vinyl, CD, Light Pink Cassette, & Digital.

“People have this vision of me as this heartbroken, depressed guy, but this record feels so true to who I am, to this rich life I now have full of people I love,” he says. “The songs culminated over the last five years to show that music has returned to its central comforting role in my life. Now I’m home.”

Welcome home, Lou.

Available now, on Light Blue Vinyl, Light Pink Cassette, CD, & Digital. Order here!

Listen to Lou's latest single, "Over You," below!

Lou Barlow
Reason to Live
Release Date: May 28, 2021

1. In My Arms
2. Reason To Live
3. Why Can't It Wait
4. Love Intervene
5. Privatize
6. I Don't Like Changes
7. Clouded Age
8. Over You
9. How Do I Know
10. Cold One
11. Thirsty
12. Maumee
13. Lows and Highs
14. Paws
15. Tempted
16. All You People Suck
17. Act of Faith