Stream: Joyeur, ‘End of the World’

Kevin Bronson on April 7th, 2021

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L.A. duo Joyeur broke a two-year silence in November with “Motion,” a spazz-tastic song that served as electro-pop therapy for the pandemic stupor. (The extended version, which came out in February, turned out to be even better.)

Now the duo of Joelle Corey and Anna Feller are back with a song inspired by the 1-2 punch of the lockdown and last summer’s oppressive wildfires — conditions they assign a vibe that might be described as haunted R&B. “End of the World” could easily be titled “Hugs in the Time of Apocalypse.” As Corey sings, “If this it … You have to sway, like there’s nothing wrong.”

“We wrote this song in response to the pandemic amid the West Coast wildfires last summer,” the duo says. “We were in Los Angeles stuck inside our homes during a heatwave looking out our closed windows and all we could see was smoke, ash and a fiery red sun in the sky. It felt like the goddamn apocalypse. Everyone we talked to was feeling beyond low. There was this intense feeling of being stuck, we couldn’t be inside together because of the virus and we couldn’t be outside together because of the fires. We coped by imagining a sort of ‘last night on earth’ party, which is how the track came about.”

||| Stream: “End of the World”