A dark modern-rock group with echoes of Editors, Interpol and White Lies, the Joy Formidable adds a gothic touch thanks to singer/bassist Ritzy Bryan’s whispery but piercing Siouxsie-like croon. Swapping one remote, forbidding locale for another, the trio from Northern Wales adjourned to the northeastern tip of the U.S. – snowbound Casco, Maine – to craft the lush and propulsive soundscapes of recent second album Wolf’s Law.
Wed., May 1, 8 p.m., 2013
This article appears in Jun 14-20, 2012.
