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ARTIST
BAND OF HOLY JOY
TITLE
Fated Beautiful Mistakes
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
TINY GLOBAL PRODUCTIONS
CATALOG #
PICI 048CD
PICI 048CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
6/30/2023
Early
Band Of Holy Joy
existed somewhere on the cut-up side of proto-industrial music, resting between
Marc Stewart & Maffia
,
Sonic Youth
, and
Current 93
, and proponents of a more romantic musical language --
Virginia Astley
,
Dead Can Dance
, and
Cocteau Twins
, among them -- all artists whose work BPHJ's music sat comfortably alongside across on a stream of low-budget vinyl and cassette compilations after the start of the eighties. A great leap in polish led to a deal with Rough Trade and several early '90s albums which flirted with the mainstream, with BOHJ almost an odder, less obvious cousin to
Dexys Midnight Runners
. When these releases failed to take off as hoped, lost years followed on smaller labels and self-released projects, until the renewed urgency of the 2016
Brutalism Begins At Home
EP and increasingly majestic albums on which saw leader
Johny Brown
's lyricism enter a new phase. The common thread through BOHJ's four decades of recordings is the foundational warmth and humanity of Brown's words. The band's earliest recordings seemed garnered from street-level observations of neighborhood people and sights. By the time of near-hit "Tactless", their songs -- whatever the underlying impulses may have been -- had become immediate enough to overcome the mystery of a line like "Do you remember the swan that was shot in the park?" Over each of their last three albums --
Funambulist We Love You
,
Neon Primitives
, and
Dreams Take Flight
-- BOHJ has bettered itself, and may now have reached their apex,
Fated Beautiful Mistakes
. We live in a time of generally justifiable gloom and awkward uncertainty. So, it may appear cavalier to claim this album sounds revelatory in that context, but Band Of Holy Joy's strengths rest largely in Johny Brown and the band's ability to capture a wider societal feeling. One listen to the escapist fantasy of "Our Flighty Season Under The Flighty Sun" and its slightly-haunted ending speaks volumes beyond most of what passes for music in 2023, and it's just one of many perfect moments on this album.
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