The Big Roar

Rock · 2011 · 39 tracks · 1h 11m

The Big Roar

The Joy Formidable

A massive, maximalist collision of shoegaze textures and stadium-sized hooks. Fuzzed-out guitars and ethereal vocals create a triumphant, stormy debut.

It's like a shoegaze band decided to play a stadium and brought enough fuzz pedals to shake the foundation.

A relentless, triumphant surge of energy that balances manic intensity with moments of soaring, melodic hope.

The Big Roar · vs · The Joy Formidable

Festival+2.8σ

Festival saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 39 Tracks · 1h 11m

01

Greyhounds in the Slips

3:25

01

The Everchanging Spectrum of a Lie

7:45

01

The Greatest Light Is the Greatest Shade

01

To Worm’s Head

02

My Beerdrunk Soul Is Sadder Than a Hundred Christmas Trees

02

My Beerdrunk Soul Is Sadder Than a Hundred Dead Christmas Trees

4:53

02

Cradle

02

The Magnifying Glass

2:20

03

Popinjay

3:12

03

The Last Drop

03

I Don’t Want to See You Like This

4:19

03

The Magnifying Glass

04

Whirring

04

Austere

04

Austere

3:30

04

Chwyrlio

4:11

05

I Don’t Want to See You Like This

05

The Butterfly’s Last Spell

3:21

05

Ostrich

05

A Heavy Abacus

3:40

06

Wide Eyed

2:43

06

Greyhound in the Slips

06

Austere

06

Whirring

6:47

07

Anemone

07

Buoy

4:52

07

The Everchanging Spectrum of a Lie

08

(Maruyama)

1:46

08

Whirring

08

Austere

09

Cradle

2:47

09

Cradle

10

Whirring

10

Llaw=Wall

3:45

11

Chapter 2

3:09

11

Popinjay

12

I Don’t Want to See You Like This

12

The Greatest Light Is the Greatest Shade

5:20

13

Austere & Cradle (with Commentary by Justin Stahley, Dain Bedford & The Joy Formidable)

Moments Worth Waiting For

The explosive transition from the quiet, melodic intro to the crushing main riff of Whirring.

The sprawling, seven-minute build of The Everchanging Spectrum of a Lie that feels like a mountain collapsing.

The way the drums hit with bone-shaking force on the opening of Cradle.

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