Line #29 Music/Joywave


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6	[[caption-width-right:350:''Why be credible when you can be incredible?'' [[note]]L - R: Benjamin Bailey, Daniel Armbruster, Joseph Morinelli, Paul Brenner[[/note]]]]
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8	->''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_WfLgVeEBw Will the soundtrack kindly produce a sound?]]"''
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10	Joywave are an American indie-rock, alternative band from UsefulNotes/{{Rochester}}, active since 2010. Their current lineup includes frontman Daniel Armbruster, guitarist Joseph Morinelli, drummer Paul Brenner, and keyboardist Ben Bailey.
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12	They first entered the mainstream with their collaboration with Music/BigData, "Dangerous", which made number one on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart in 2014. They have since released four albums: ''How Do You Feel Now?'' in April 2015, ''Content'' in July 2017, ''Possession'' in March 2020, and ''Cleanse'' in February 2022.
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14	!!''"Go on, don't be nervous. Go ahead. Any sound."''
15	* 2011 -- ''77777'' (Mixtape)
16	* 2012 -- ''Koda Vista'' (EP)
17	* 2013 -- ''88888'' (Mixtape)
18	* 2015 -- ''How Do You Feel Now?''
19	* 2016 -- ''Swish'' (Compilation)
20	* 2017 -- ''Content''
21	* 2020 -- ''Possession''
22	* 2022 -- ''Cleanse''
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25	!!''"Well, that isn't ''quite'' what I had in mind..."''
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27	* AnimatedMusicVideo: The MV for "Blank Slate" is a claymation-style animation of a space satellite going on a journey.
28	* FantasticDrug: The music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXmy5gyELrc "Half Your Age"]] pretends to be a commercial for a fake prescription medication called Brushitall (with the name taken from a line repeated in the song's chorus: "Brush it all, brush it all, brush it all, brush it away..."). However, as the video plays out, the man in the commercial ends up [[DescentIntoAddiction growing addicted to it]]... [[SurrealMusicVideo and then things just get weird]].
29	* {{Eagleland}}: A "Murica the Boorish" example in "Buy American", a satirical hot take on the nation's wasteful consumer culture.
30	* LyricalDissonance: "It's a Trip" is about the dark uncertainty of dealing with fame and achieving your dreams, while the instrumental is catchy and fun.
31	* ProductionForeshadowing: Several of the [[ShowWithinAShow fake movies]] in the music video for "Obsession", initially released as a single ahead of their upcoming album "Possession", foreshadow other songs that would appear on the album. Aside from the obvious ''[[TitleDrop Obsession]]'', there's also ''The Divine Possession'', ''Coming Apart'', ''Half Your Age'', ''Blank Slate'', ''Funny Thing About Opinions'', ''Mr. Eastman: The Perfect Case'', and ''F.E.A.R.''
32	* ShowWithinAShow: The music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2G9qar-yKw "Obsession"]] is a rapid-fire montage of opening titles from fake [[{{Retraux}} late-20th-century-esque]] films, hitting just about every possible cinematic trope of the era in the process.
33	* SurrealMusicVideo: Their music videos are almost invariably a certain degree of surreal, ranging from an [=MP3=] player becoming a member of the band ("Destruction"), hunters searching for nudists to shoot clothes back on them ("Tongues") to a man's slow descent into drug addiction disguised as a medicine ad ("Half Your Age") and the band glitching through reality while skateboarding ("Somebody New").
34	* SurprisinglyGentleSong:
35	** "Let’s Talk About Feelings" the closing track on Content is a gentle and relaxing jazz song about the beginning of a relationship in comparison to their loud and energetic rock.
36	** Relatively speaking, "Like A Kennedy" also counts as this.
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