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Joy Control

by Modern Guilt

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Following their critically acclaimed debut EP ‘You’re Welcome’, Modern Guilt have kicked off 2022 in style by announcing the release of brand new single ‘Joy Control’.

Hailed by tastemakers including John Kennedy (Radio X), praised by This Feeling as one of the ‘Best New Bands’, and championed by the likes of Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream), Shell Zenner (BBC Radio / Amazing Radio) and Rowena Alice (BBC Radio / Boogaloo Radio / Islington Radio), Modern Guilt “are re-igniting and modernising their era and genre influences in a strong flame of colour” (Listen To Discover).

‘Joy Control’ is the band’s first release following last year’s ‘You’re Welcome’ EP. Produced by long-term collaborator Mikey Buckley, the new single sits somewhere between the sounds of Motown and the New Wave scene of 1970’s New York City. While lyrically it depicts the frustrations of watching an individual, for a multitude of reasons, choose not to become someone you thought they could be.

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‘Best New Bands’ - This Feeling & Amazon Music

“Modern Guilt are knocking it out of the park. Their sound already has a level of maturity that makes it both distinctive and confident in it’s ambition” - Chalkpit Records

“They’re fun, gritty, and daringly infectious. We’ll be watching this band with great interest, they’re for sure going places” - Clunk Magazine

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lyrics

You could have been quite something
Nothing that they’d ever seen
Breaking hearts like bones in the summer
And breaking hearts through the tv screens

But I think I know you
Seen your type before
You wanna kiss the neck of the ghost that you wear and hit the floor

And i know how you’ve been feeling
You spelt it out in the snow
With the tip of a lit cigarette you said its time to leave you’ve got no place to go

You keep me hanging on
Oh on the telephone
I feel you’re getting cold
Oh well I’m here for a little joy control

You could have stolen all the world
Right out from under their throats
Why’d you turn you’re back on it all and hit the road

You don’t want to stop me from feeling
Just want to make me cry
Oh it really works for you baby, I don’t know if it’s been like that a while

You keep me hanging on
Oh on the telephone
I can’t take much more
Oh well I’m here for
Oh well I’m here for
Oh well I’m here for joy control

You keep me hanging on
Oh on the telephone
I can’t take much more
Oh well I’m here for a little joy control

credits

released February 25, 2022
Jaz - vocals, guitar
Andreas Podda - lead guitars
Scott Thomson - drums, percussion, backing vocals
Glyn Evans - organ
Dan Williams - bass

Recorded and produced by Mikey Buckley at Press Play Studio, London

Mastered by Tim Turan at Turan Audio Ltd, Oxford

Artwork by Marinello Studio, Edinburgh

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Modern Guilt London, UK

Jaz (vocals/guitar)

Andreas Podda (lead guitar)

Scott Thomson (drums)

Yago Fernandez (keys/organs)

Dan Williams (bass)

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