We caught up with LA-via-Philly rock band Mt. Joy about the five-year anniversary of their debut album and where they're headed next.
Frontman Matt Quinn reflects on the five-year anniversary of the band's debut album and where the band is headed next.Five years for most people is encapsulated in photographs and old memories but, for frontman Matt Quinn, it’s etched in Mt. Joy’s music. To Quinn, the quintet’s folksy music exists in a dichotomy between the abstract and vividly real.
Quinn had always dreamed of being a musician. Even with the failure he endured in college, he was able to revive a piece of that version of himself through “Silver Lining,” which he originally wrote and recorded with his band at Northeastern: Heavy Elephant. The viscerally authentic acoustic track about losing friends to drugs-related deaths in his hometown connected with so many people when he re-recorded it under the Mt. Joy name.
Taking a moment to reflect on how they have changed in all those years of touring and getting to develop not just as musicians but also as people, Quinn says, “I feel like we’re a totally different band than we were five years ago, in a really good way. We were just joking about this the other day. We would be scared to hear a recording of Mt. Joy in 2018. We feel like we’ve gotten to a pretty good place, but five years back, we hadn’t played together much.
Even amongst their packed schedules and touring, Quinn and his bandmates won’t stop making music, no matter how hard it may be. Earlier this year, they released an uncharacteristically upbeat pop-centric track, “A Little Love,” with singer/songwriter Julia Pratt. “I became aware of her because she sent a TikTok of her singing our song ‘Dirty Love.’ It gave me chills. I was like, ‘Who is this?’” Quinn exclaims. “Then I found out she was from Philly, which is amazing for me.
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