Renowned indie-rock outfit Joywave have announced their long-awaited fifth studio album, Permanent Pleasure, will be released on May 17th, 2024.

The band revealed the official artwork and track list alongside the release of their new single, “Scared,” from the forthcoming album.

The accompanying music video for “Scared”, directed by Dimitri Basil, features the misadventure of the band’s enigmatic feline companion. You can watch all the action below.

Permanent Pleasure was written by Joywave (Daniel Armbruster, Paul Brenner, Joseph Morinelli), produced by Armbruster, and recorded at The Joycave (Rochester, NY) and the University of Rochester’s Gavett Audio Studio.

Side A:
1. Graffiti Planet
2. Scared
3. Brain Damage
4. He’s Back!
5. Sleepytime Fantasy

The first side opens on a Mayor-spoken PSA for a Rochester town, along with the Rochesterian band and their music contained within the pop-impassioned one minute, jauntily gritty the next, Graffiti Planet and the strident Scared and they are followed by the veritably cinematic Brain Damage, the triumphantly-skewed, pop delight that drives He’s Back! and the aptly-named, languishing Sleepytime Fantasy.

6. Swimming In The Glow
7. Hate To Be A Bother
8. 787 Dreamliner
9. Splendor
10. Here To Perform The Final Song From Their Album Permanent Pleasure, Please Welcome...Joywave

Flipping the vinyl LP over, and up next is the fluttering, glistening pop-rocker Swimming In The Glow and the alt-pop sensibilities within the foot-tapper Hate To Be A Bother, and they are in turn backed by the reaching, alt-hued 787 Dreamliner, the ethereally-imbibed, mid-tempo ballad Splendor, the album closing on the shimmering synth pop gem Here To Perform The Final Song From Their Album Permanent Pleasure, Please Welcome...Joywave (complete with an unexpected vaudeville exit).

While fans wait for Permanent Pleasure to be unleashed into the world in May, Armbruster offered a glimpse into the album’s thematic universe saying, “Permanent Pleasure. A decade in the sunbeam. A unique vantage point. Our job has become to sit and think. To experience and react. The album is really 10 thoughts from Joywave’s beam. We’ve blown apart the cohesiveness of Cleanse and brought back more variation in sonic palette while simultaneously making a guitar and string forward record (less keys), but we’ve kept the advances in songwriting we’ve made along the way.”

“It’s a bit more all over in the way How Do You Feel Now? was but with the songwriting we’ve come to be known for over the last several albums. I think most of the lyrics are taking place in the light as well, not loads of metaphors. Quite a bit more personal. The album is Joywave’s ‘whatever we want to do, whenever we want to do it’ at its best, and we loved the idea of the temporary state of the band name maturing into this album title.”

Official Purchase Link

www.joywavemusic.com