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About Me

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jwe is in seattle, washington.
Click HERE! to purchase "You Who Pretend To Sleep"
PRESS The Stranger's "Band of the Week"
Take a few minutes of your day to check out this weeks Band of the Week, Joy Wants Eternity. Their songs are lush, atmospheric soundscapes reminiscent of Mogwais more beautiful and melodic moments. But they also obviously find inspiration in My Bloody Valentine.
Decoymusic.com review of "must you smash your ears..."
"...The EP is astounding, the title seems to invite you to interpret the music visually... Nonetheless I did try to imagine what could be happening and, to me, the music conjured up the scene from Bambi where his mother dies. Except instead of being shot shes hit by a jumbo-jet, oh and it was all in space. 4/5"
"Must You Smash Your Ears Before You Learn to Listen With Your Eyes" is a chilling recounting of everything that is going right in the post-rock world.
THE STRANGER (link to review)
"...Their ambient sound unfurls comfortably, layering keyboard melodies over amber guitar riffs and astral drones, similar to Kinski's lighter moments or Slowdive's wordless sprawls...."
THREE IMAGINARY GIRLS (link to review)
"Epic, cinematic, dynamic and a bunch of other -ics, but never icky. Highly recommended." --
TINY MIX TAPES (link to review)
"...The positives definitely outweigh the negatives on Joy Wants Eternity's debut performance. The band is able to tell a good story using only music and a vision. The album, for the most part, is as cohesive as anything you'll pick up in the bins of your local record establishment. There's a passion exuding from each and every one of these songs, making it impossible not to be infected with JWE's spirit and vigor...."

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/18/2004
Band Website: joywantseternity.com
Band Members: emory (drums)
michael (g)
rob (g)(rhodes)
sal (g)
salo (rhodes)(g)
Influences: "Consciousness is a being, the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being." -Sartre
Sounds Like: Matter, in any one of its moments.
Record Label: Beep Repaired
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

You Who Pretend to Sleep on radio! more news!

We are happy with the response to the new record "You Who Pretend to Sleep", being played so far at KEXP, RainyDawg Radio, KNDD, KPSU (portland), KFJC (san jose), UCLA Radio, Radio K (Minneapolis), KZ...
Posted by joy wants eternity on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:31:00 PST

Free Preview of "You Who Pretend To Sleep" at last.fm

You can now preview our new album, You Who Pretend To Sleep in it's entirety over at last.fm. We're pretty sure if you're not a member of last.fm you can still listen, but if not, it's a good r...
Posted by joy wants eternity on Thu, 03 May 2007 03:05:00 PST

KPSU Performance (download/stream)

You can now stream and/or download our performance from KPSU stream here (scroll down to saturday @ 4pm) or you can download it: download here we start about 10 minutes into the program. set...
Posted by joy wants eternity on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:10:00 PST

West Coast Tour '07

We will be on tour in support of our new record "You Who Pretend to Sleep" out May 22nd on Beep Repaired Records. We are looking for dates the first week of June all along the coast. If yo...
Posted by joy wants eternity on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:17:00 PST

This Blinding Light

Michael and Lance (Hypatia Lake) have started a new side project called 'This Blinding Light' with the addition of Bobby Wayne (Arkade+others) on drums. Psychedelic spirituals in the vein of Spacemen ...
Posted by joy wants eternity on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:51:00 PST

JWE on I-Tunes, EMusic...

Must you smash your ears before you learn to listen with your eyes is now available at: I-TunesE-MusicRhapsody and some other place we can't remember the name of right now. So if you never had ...
Posted by joy wants eternity on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:25:00 PST

You Who Pretend To Sleep Update

Work has finally been completed on "You Who Pretend To Sleep", our first full length album. Now it's off to mastering and priting, we're hoping to squeak in under the wire for 2006. Track List: ...
Posted by joy wants eternity on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:23:00 PST

live audio from Sunday 10/15

can be found here. someone out there was kind enough to record caspian, ourselves, and you.may.die.in.the.desert. we wish you could have been there, because it really was an amazing night, and ...
Posted by joy wants eternity on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:13:00 PST

"The Silent Ballet" Compilation

We have a new song up! Our song "From Embrace to Embrace", from our upcoming full length, is included on a net compilation called "The Silent Ballet", which features 11 of best instru...
Posted by joy wants eternity on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:10:00 PST

Album updates and other news

Hey everyone. The album is nearly finished. Should everything go as planned we will be sending it off to be mastered at the end of the month, with hopes to release it sometime in August.&...
Posted by joy wants eternity on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 03:25:00 PST