Spread Joy have ponied up another 16-or-so-minute release called—wait for it—III (Feel It). And with COVID now years removed, what does the increasingly punk-ified band choose to do with their captive audience, at a time when ICE and the Department of Homeland Security have invaded their home city, prospects of the future look bleaker than ever in recent memory, and bands can barely afford to tour, much less exist?
Well, they return to having fun and letting loose, of course. Hold your tongue before spitting at this writer for making what could be interpreted as a disparaging comment; my intent is to congratulate Spread Joy for staying true to their original goal, which was to provide an escape from the misery of the pandemic—and now, one could argue, the misery of the Great American Project or even human civilization itself. Put simply, they are the musical embodiment of an Irish funeral.
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