With the release of their fourth studio album, Hope We Have Fun, Mt. Joy have crafted a work that combines their penchant for what their advance press describes as “folk-rock textures with festival-sized hooks” with some bold experimentation. The band’s latest release is super-sized in ambition; big themes, big swings, and plenty of the aforementioned big hooks that have rendered them a live festival favorite. While the latter makes their latest release familiar, the experimentation makes it fun and promising for Mt. Joy‘s future development.
The album title is a wish that the contents within flesh out as tentative, yet sincere in the hard-won sense of embracing life’s contradictions and serendipity. The title track, “Hope We Have Fun”, closes the record as a subdued…