Joyeur: How to Love Yourself and Not Destroy Everything
Joyeur shines through the pain in debut studio album ‘How to Love Yourself and Not Destroy Everything’
LA-based alt-pop artist Joyeur has shown the world a soaring introspective side to her music with the release of her 10-track LP, How to Love Yourself and Not Destroy Everything.
An album that celebrates life and the joy and pains of learning to love oneself by entrancing the listener with hyper-pulsating bass, uniquely rich vocals and alt pop melancholy. ‘How to Love Yourself and Not Destroy Everything’ takes us on a genre-bending roller coaster through intricately textured pop landscapes with a chaser of emotional growth to boot.
Lead single Destroyer highlights the pain of knowing one’s wrongs and the vulnerabilities that come forth with sweetly sad and transformative melodies guaranteed to hook in new listeners with a single shared star power: flaws. The raw confessional nature remains a constant theme throughout. Underbelly, which plays on the fear of exposing your softer side—unprotected and open to attack—but doing it anyway because to be vulnerable is to let love in.
Vocally, Joelle—the creative mind behind Joyeur—knew just where to inject the soulful intimacy and candor around the interjections of sparse beats, especially in track 2, Fish, which brings elements of 90s RnB into the mix before getting playfully polyphonic with the hip hop tinged track, Don’t Wanna T.
Track 4, Please Stand By, strips the production right back to exhibit the true vocal arresting propensities, before the LP hits a trippy techno sweet spot with Ultraviolet Techno.
Joyeur said: "The album explores human themes of hopefulness, perseverance, self-acceptance and self-sabotage—experiences that have guided my writing from the beginning. I feel like I’ve torn the veil off my pain, fear, and insecurities to reveal power that can be used for good. Empowering and accepting myself in this way feels like a gateway to letting love in and stop undermining my own wants and needs. I can be my own worst enemy."
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