Joy Cut (Italy) w/ Orchards
Joy Cut
Italy’s JoyCut, based in Bologna, emerged in 2004, the project named for the conjunction between the song ‘Joey’ from Nick Drake’s Time of No Reply and Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut. After some sonic exploration on early recordings, JoyCut’s most distinct sounds of post-rock and dark-wave bore true fruit on the 2009 release Ghost Trees Where to Disappear. The music includes a weaving of powerful sonic moments using electronic melodies and percussion with found objects from the urban landscape. Often experimental but always accessible, JoyCut have found a loyal fan base in Italy, the UK as well as most of Europe and have now brought their venture to the US in support of their latest album PiecesOfUsWereLeftOnTheGround.
Having opened and toured with such bands as Arcade Fire, Editors, Art Brut, Modest Mouse and Sebadoh, the trio won over North American fans on their first proper US Tour in winter and spring of 2014. The tour not only exposed them to thousands of new fans but also to radio (Nic Harcourt of KCSN has become a big supporter), commercial scoring (VISA World Cup commercial score secured through their SXSW International Day Stage Performance) and mainstream press (MTV Iggy Artist of the Week in April 2014 and Under The Radar feature in July 2014 issue) in America and Canada.
A North American return in the fall of 2014, fresh off their first ever dates in South America, will take them to new cities as well as have them return to others where they had great success this past winter and spring. The band continues to tour in support of their third album, 2013’s PiecesOfUsWereLeftOnTheGround (released on Italy’s largest record label IRMA and available in the US on iTunes), while continuing to write new material for a 2015 release. For fans of; Fuck Buttons, Foals, The Cure, Joy Division, A Place To Bury Strangers, Godspeed You Black Emperor.
Orchards
After being good friends in middle school, Evan Wagner and Austin Tracy went their separate ways in high school. In what seems to have been an act of fate, they ran into each other at a Tame Impala show in Louisville six years later. They began writing and eventually recruited Kyle Stone, from Austin's other band Audubon. Given the opportunity to work with Shiraz Dada of Maps and Atlases, they headed to Chicago in March of 2014 to record their debut, the culmination of a year of writing.