1. be longing
2. owed to spring
3. berlin bender
4. please slow down
5. easy
6. the fool
7. dreams
8. thee lover
9. the earth cries through me
10. welcome home

Credits
Produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Greg Saunier with three songs produced and engineered by jess joy (be longing, the earth sings through me, welcome home), and all vocals produced and engineered by jess joy.

Album cover photograph by Leone Julitte with needling art by Stone.

All songs written by jess joy by instrumental and vocal arrangements by Laura Fisher, Alex Brownstein, Greg Saunier, Byron Asher, Sarah McTaggart, and Anuraag Pendyall.

Thank you to Greg Saunier for the 5th record you’ve birthed with me! Thank you to the friends who collaborated on the music with me—you are the best and give me life! Thank you to Joyful Noise for the work y’all put forth to share the music!

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).