Photo by Marisa Bazan

Has it really been six years since Club Night’s great breakthrough debut album, What Life? While the passage of that much time may have rendered any other smaller band to be forgotten in this over-saturated new music economy, the Oakland quartet created a sound that was uncanny enough — with it’s split difference of colorful noise-pop, raucous post-hardcore, and riff-heavy indie rock — that still sounds progressive in the present day. With “Palace”, the lead single from their long-overdue sophomore effort, Joy Coming Down, not even the whelm of today’s everyday can stimy that energy, reignited with their faces against the hearth in decidedly even louder commotion to combat the dredge of anxiety. “We need relief from / All this energy wasted / On another fantasy / We are so freckled from the competition,” shouts Josh Bertram, his voice momentarily freed from its previous helium state and instead a physical force of righteous volatility moving to its own directive charge. MSPAINT’s Deedee may have just found a kindred spirit on that one, yet as the listen resigns to its corner, so does that rising action. “I am of no use to this organic shape / But on and on it goes.” No gods, no masters and all, but man, the plight to fight another mundane day can leave you feeling like a puddle at the end of the day.

Club Nights Joy Coming Down will be released May 2nd on Tiny Engines.