Photo Credit: Shervin Lainez
March 16, 2023 – Today, indie pop trio JOSEPH release an empowering new anthem “The Sun,” the second single and title track from their upcoming album The Sun (April 28, ATO Records). The “irresistibly catchy” (Atwood Magazine) new single is released alongside a music video, and tells the story of walking away from a relationship that makes you feel small, and realizing you are more than you think you are. Watch the official music video for “The Sun” here.
“The Sun” is released on the heals of “Nervous System,” (watch the official video here) the band’s first single from the upcoming album that has already surpassed 1.5 million streams, and been featured on Apple’s New Music Daily and Morning Coffee, Spotify’s All New Indie and Just Good Music, Amazon’s Fresh Indie, and many more. In addition to a major fast selling US tour this spring and summer, the band will open for friend and collaborator James Bay at London’s famed Royal Albert Hall on April 26. For more information: https://thebandjoseph.com/shows
Pre-order the album here:
https://atorecords-ffm.com/josephthesun Listen to “The Sun”:
https://atorecords-ffm.com/thesunsong Watch Music Video:
One of the first songs recorded for The Sun, the album’s shimmering title track served as something of a sonic breakthrough for Joseph. The band took a more slowed down, acoustic and serious version of the song out on the road, testing it for audiences while on tour with The Shins. When it came time to lay down the track, with the help of longtime producer Leggy Langdon, the song took on a more buoyant, summery and well, sunny, disposition. Inspired by Meegan’s experience in working through the lessons of a past relationship, “The Sun” now centers on a lush arrangement of galvanizing rhythms, radiant piano tones, and gorgeously euphoric harmonies—all of which lend a profoundly triumphant spirit to the song’s statement of self-celebration (“I thought I was the light switch you turned on/But I was the Sun”). Says Meegan, “Many times I have found myself in a position where I’m stuck in cycles of negative self-talk. Times when I have seen myself as bad and struggle seeing any other possible truth. This song is my higher self speaking to that me. It’s me reminding myself that I am more than I think I am.”
That shift toward a more joyful and resplendent presentation perfectly mirrors The Sun’s underlying narrative. “The whole album is a sort of thinking through of the story that you tell about yourself, to yourself,” says Natalie Closner, “It’s about looking at whatever is diminishing you or making you believe in these limitations you’ve put on yourself, and then finally asking, ‘What if I’m more than that?’”
Track List – The Sun
01. Waves Crash
02. The Sun
03. Fireworks
04. Don’t Protect Me
05. Slow Dance
06. Nervous System
07. Tell Me About You
08. Kicking Up The Light
09. Three More Hours
10. Love Is Flowing
UPCOMING DATES
April 24 London, UK Bush Hall
April 26 London, UK Royal Albert Hall (Opening for James Bay – SOLD OUT)
April 28 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
April 29 Los Angeles, CA The Belasco
April 30 San Diego, CA Music Box
May 2 Tucson, AZ Congress Plaza Stage
May 3 Santa Fe, NM Meow Wolf
May 5 Dallas, TX The Echo Lounge & Music Hall
May 6 Houston, TX Last Concert Café
May 7 Austin, TX Paramount Theatre
May 9 Oklahoma City, OK Tower Theatre
May 11 Boulder, CO Boulder Theater
May 12 Salt Lake City, UT Commonwealth Room
May 13 Boise, ID Knitting Factory
May 15 Missoula, MT The Wilma
May 16 Spokane, WA Knitting Factory
May 18 Seattle, WA The Showbox
May 19 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
May 20-21 Portland, OR Revolution Hall
June 9 St. Paul, MN Fitzgerald Theater
June 10 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall
June 11 Indianapolis, IN HIFI Annex
June 13 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
June 14 Ferndale, MI The Magic Bag
June 16 Toronto, ON Opera House
June 17 Buffalo, NY Town Ballroom
June 18 Burlington, VT Higher Ground
June 20 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club
June 22 New York, NY Irving Plaza
June 23 Philadelphia, PA World Café Live
June 24 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
June 25 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle
June 27 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
June 29 Nashville, TN Brooklyn Bowl
June 30 St. Louis, MO Delmar Hall
July 1 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall
