The long awaited self-titled debut album from United Sounds of Joy arrives this Friday through Bronzerat. Former Dream City Film Club collaborators Michael J Sheehy and Alex Vald, who make up the outfit, first grabbed our ears last summer with the wonderful and velvety ‘The Sun That Hides A Darker Star’. With the album’s imminent release rapidly approaching, the pair have unveiled the beautiful and ethereal second single ‘I Hear Her Call My Name’, and they are offering it with a self-directed video. Watch it below and let your ears wrap around these sumptuous sounds.

Two decades after playing together in Dream City Film Club (1995 – 1999), Michael J Sheehy and Alex Vald join forces again to form United Sounds of Joy. “With an alluring brand of devious pop noir”, as the press release describes, they “traverse an emotionally wrought but righteous and rewarding route to a new gothic chanson, where the songs are immersed achingly in an eerie, crepuscular pool of fuzzy, warmly welcoming psychedelics.”
United Sounds of Joy will be releasing their debut album in November. Whilst we wait to hear more about it, we can already get a taste of what they have in store for us with the wonderful and velvety ‘The Sun That Hides A Darker Star’. The track is being offered with a visual accompaniment and it will be available as a free download on August 14th via their website. Till then, listen to it below.