To mark the announcement of their new album, Permanent Maintenance, NYC's Joudy have dropped a blistering single and video for "Nail." The album, due July 24th via Trash Casual, is a record of personal stories that reach across an entire society.
"Nail" is a woozy noise rock fist pumper, accented with velvety-smooth vocal melodies. Clocking in at just under three minutes, yet feeling like it only lasts thirty seconds. It's kinda perfect.
As if an official music video weren't enough, the band graced us with a Live and Loud video of the same track, taken from a show at Sleepwalk in Brooklyn earlier this year - where they are joined by Zach Ellis of Dead Tooth.
This March, Joudy will be making their way to SXSW in Austin, Texas. Stay tuned for a full list of their showcase performances. And on March 22, they will return to New York for a show at The Meadows with their longtime friends from Venezuela, Zeta, who are on their 10-year anniversary tour in the US. See all upcoming tour dates here.
ABOUT JOUDY:
“Pain is a fine knife sharpened by love.” So says Joudy frontman Diego Ramirez when reflecting on the NYC group's latest endeavors. This emotional clarity and exposed honesty is a hallmark of the band's most vital, intense era yet. Set aside are the evocative lyrics and lush soundscapes of their earlier releases. In their place, lyrical and sonic directness is embraced on the unvarnished and love-torn upcoming album Permanent Maintenance (out July 24 on Trash Casual). This is a record that distills Joudy's soaring rock into something simply shorter, louder, and stronger.
For the trio, rounded out by fellow Venezuelan emigres Hulrich Navas (drums) and Carlos Rey (bass), this streamlining is just another natural step forward as they uncompromisingly blaze a trail amongst life's shadowy moments. Originally formed in their hometown of San Cristobal in the mid 2010s, before the band members fled the intense political climate that was brewing in their home nation, Joudy’s journey has taken a long road from from South America to the east coast of the United States.
Joudy have always tried to make sense of “this messy universe.” While the wide angle lens fantasies of recent albums, Obertura and Destroy All Monsters, sought to do that through grand expositions, Permanent Maintenance brings it down to the most acute of human experiences: to love and to lose. While these are deeply personal songs, they are universal.
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