Kevin Bronson on December 8th, 2017

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Street Joy have emerged from their identity crisis all funked up. The L.A. duo of Scott Zimmerman and Jason Demayo put themselves on the map with a series of smart, catchy singles released in 2014 and ’15, then said they would dive into recording a full-length album. Their creators apparently blinded by the lights of a disco ball, those songs, at least as initially conceived, never saw the light of day. So Street Joy, Version 2, has resurfaced this year with three singles and an irreverent, possibly even poke-your-ears-out cover of Van Halen’s “Hot for Teacher.”

There’s a party everywhere in the 3 1/2 minutes of Street Joy’s latest single “Party Party Everywhere,” because, as the duo says, “Don’t you think that sometimes it’s helpful to take a step back from the things that stress you out?” Even better disco therapy is “Ricochet,” which sounds like Spoon doing the Bee Gees. Maybe, like in the video for “Do a Thing,” it’s all a hallucination. Or maybe we’re just partied out.

||| Stream: “Party Party Everywhere” and “Ricochet”

||| Also: Watch the video for “Do a Thing”

||| Previously: “Telephone,” “Long Time Ago”