John Joseph – Float (2022)
While studying jazz at The New School, John Joseph (guitar, vocals and lyricist), Gabriel Paiano (bass) and Harry Smith (drums) began hanging out, became friends and soon found they are pretty awesome as a band. Influenced by the likes of The Strokes, Bob Dylan, Alex G and The Great American Songbook, this US-based trio has an eclectic sound ready for the masses. Established as energetic and engaging performing artists in New York, the lads have played notable venues like The Bowery Electric, The Hart Bar, The Delancey, Rockwood Music Hall and various others. The latest addition to their discography is the single ‘Float’.
The first release since their three-track EP Sunday Demos, ‘Float’ is John Joseph’s debut single. Nodding to the indie-rock sounds of the early-2000s, ‘Float’ has strong tinges of The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand and The Fratellis. Bright, upbeat and filled with toe-tapping joviality, the lads bring brightness into any person’s day with this new track. Interestingly enough, while the song has a high-paced jocularity to it, the lyrics are a little more profound.
Recorded by Irving Gadoury at Mighty Toad Recording Studio in Brooklyn, New York, ‘Float’ has an inimitable and well-textured arrangement; however, the quality lyrics seem to add an intimacy to the track. John Joseph explains that ‘Float’ is “…an upbeat track about the gray area that one may have to navigate when the definition of your relationship with a friend becomes unclear…”
Sincere, sentimental, passionate and introspective, these talented artists encapsulate the happiness and poignancy of defining a relationship – “the space between then and now” – in their single ‘Float’.
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