Joy Wants Eternity is a five piece post-rock

Post-rock

Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock...

 band from Seattle. The band has drawn comparisons to Explosions in the Sky

Explosions in the Sky

Explosions in the Sky is an American post-rock band from Texas. The band has garnered popularity beyond the post-rock scene for their elaborately developed guitar work, narratively styled instrumentals, what they refer to as "cathartic mini-symphonies," and their enthusiastic and emotional live shows...

 and Mogwai

Mogwai

The word mogwai is the transliteration of the Cantonese word 魔怪 meaning "monster", "evil spirit", "devil" or "demon".-Mogwai/Mogui in Chinese culture:...

 in album reviews with its melodic passages and equal parts ambience through heavily effected guitar. The Joy Wants Eternity song "You are the Vertical, You are the Horizon" was featured on radio talk show Sound Opinions

Sound Opinions

Sound Opinions is a radio talk show focusing on rock music. It airs Friday night at 8 PM CST and Saturday morning at 11 AM CST on Chicago Public Radio. The show is hosted by Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot and features interviews with musicians and industry figures as well as featuring current music...

. The band has played multiple shows with post-rock bands Caspian

Caspian (band)

Caspian is an instrumental post-rock band from Beverly, Massachusetts. Since 2003 Caspian have released 2 full-length albums, an EP and a split 7".-Early History 2003-2004:...

, Beware of Safety

Beware of Safety

Beware of Safety, commonly abbreviated as BoS, is an instrumental post-rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band plays sprawling, instrumental rock that could be classified as post-metal, post-rock, and even math rock at some points. Beware of Safety is currently on The Mylene Sheath roster...

, and Seattle's own You.May.Die.In.The.Desert. The band's current label is XTAL Records. It can be surmised that the name of the band is a reference to the philosophical poem Zarathustra's roundelay

Zarathustra's Roundelay

Zarathustra's Roundelay is a philosophical poem that features as a central motif in the book Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche. The roundelay first appears in "Chapter 59: The Second Dance-Song", as a mysterious revelation that precedes "Chapter 60: The Seven Seals", a conclusion and...

 of Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...

's Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None is a philosophical novel by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885...

 (see Walter Kaufmann

Walter Kaufmann

Walter Arnold Kaufmann was a German-American philosopher, translator, and poet. A prolific author, he wrote extensively on a broad range of subjects, such as authenticity and death, moral philosophy and existentialism, theism and atheism, Christianity and Judaism, as well as philosophy and...

's translation).

History

Formed in 2003, the original 15 piece lineup experimented with walls of sound and eventually pared down to a five piece before its first show. The band's first release came in 2005 with a self-released EP, Must You Smash Your Ears Before You Learn to Listen with Your Eyes. After a 90.3 KEXP-FM live performance, the band went in the studio to record their full length debut with the production assistant from the show, Andy Boyd. Released in May 2007 on local collective label Beep Repaired
, the album You Who Pretend to Sleep received national attention with radio airplay and reviews. Silent Ballet, an instrumental rock online zine, listed it as #19 of the top 50 instrumental releases of 2007 worldwide. Japanese label XTAL Records picked up the band's release in 2008. After a US tour in 2008, the band began working on a new album, which is still pending as of January 2010.

Members

• Salvador Huerta: Guitar
• Emory Liu: Drums, percussion
• Daniel Salo: Electric piano, bass, guitar
• Michael Sterling: Guitar
• Rob Thompson: Guitar, electric piano

Albums

• You Who Pretend to Sleep (2007, Beep Repaired)
• You Who Pretend to Sleep + 2 bonus tracks (2008, XTAL)

EPs

• Must You Smash Your Ears Before You Learn to Listen with Your Eyes EP (2005, self released)

External links

• Official website
• Joy Wants Eternity at Myspace
• [ Joy Wants Eternity at Allmusic]