MOJO's review - Andy Cowan
January 2018 4/5 Stars
Revived tightrope walkers tackle Brexit, Trump and the erosion of liberal values.
The mile-wide humanist streak that characterised Band of Holy Joy's '80s pop portraiture has cannonballed since singer Johny Brown revived the franchise in the late 2000s.
Now operating as an against-the-grain beat quintet, their spirited compound of '60s psych, jangle-pop, agitprop and crying soul scrabbles to unearth cracks of light in the present global dark.
The hope for redemption looms large in the evangelically-driven "A revivalist impulse" and horn-blasted "To leave or remain", its DNA still detectable amid the controlled tension of "The song of casual indifference" and a title track as tight amd taut as Stutter-era James.
A renewed testament, "Funambulist..." finds BOHJ's convictions burning with brimstone and intensity.
Band of Holy Joy, con ese nombre tan pletórico, resulta que llevan desde los 80 sacando discos con bastante regularidad, y abnegados a un tercer o cuarto plano del mundillo, donde sus videos no acumulan más de 1000 visitas en Youtube, son un grato regalo para los seguidores de The Smiths, James o Babybird (en ese cantar roto de algunos temas).
Por nuestra parte, de lo que hemos escuchado en Spotify, nos quedamos con "A lonesome dove":
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