Little Joy - Little Joy

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Little Joy - Little Joy

“A new Los Angeles-based trio featuring Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti, Little Joy plays a laid-back brand of indie pop that reflects the outfit’s easygoing West Coast environment in the same way that the Strokes’ caffeinated jangle depicts the hustle-and-bustle of Manhattan. Moretti’s bandmates here are his girlfriend Binki Shapiro and Rodrigo Amarante of Brazilian group Los Hermanos, whom Moretti befriended when the Strokes and Los Hermanos played a Portuguese festival together. In the studio with producer Noah Georgeson the three traded off instruments, and that evidently established an appealingly freewheeling vibe heard throughout “Little Joy.” Nothing on the album is as catchy or as memorable as the Strokes’ sharpest material, but several cuts sport a sweet Latin lilt, which helps distinguish the music from work by any number of similarly situated acts.—Mikael Wood”