joan on finally releasing their eclectic debut album Superglue: "We feel really confident in who we are now"
20.04.2023 - 15:15
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US pop duo joan - aka Alan Thomas and Steven Rutherford - have been working towards the release of their debut album for a long time.
Since their first emergence in 2017, joan have constantly evolved, although each single and EP, thought they diverge in exciting new directions, stays true to the band's core; heady emotion steadied with luxuriant, big pop production.
Superglue, then, is the ultimate culmination of joan's efforts so far. A wide reaching and eclectic LP brining in seemingly disparate parts of electronica, synth-pop, indie-rock and indie-pop, the album sets out to answer perhaps the biggest questions out there; why are we here? What really matters? What does it all mean?
With the swooning, emotional title track closing out proceedings, they may have answered their own question - all that matters is that you find and surround yourself with the people who love you.
Alan: That's a great question! Right off the bat. I love that. I'll say this, from day one we've been very single-driven, and the singles then kind of turned into EPs. I think for a while we were fighting the old guard idea that you need to release an album. You know what I mean? The economy of pop moves so fast now. Is anyone gonna pay attention if we drop 10, 12 songs in a row? Or could we just hit people, one at a time?
Steven: I think we also just took our time discovering what our sound was. We wanted to make sure that when we did make a debut album, whatever that looked like, we would have a solid fan base [to issue it to]. We've always been really quick moving, sound-wise from project to project. We've always liked it that way. We feel really confident in who we are now, who joan is and what our sound actually is. It feels very joan.
Alan: