Many thanks to Brian Erickson for including us in his Top Twenty list for 2020 for our album Hymn, released earlier this year on Tommy Hambleton’s Procrastination Records! Brian is kind enough to say, “Joy on Fire is the best live band working in New Jersey right now. And their albums are a vital taste of the fury they wreak on stage.” The complete write up on You Don’t Know Jersey is here.

Brian plays in a great live band himself, The Extensions, and when we saw them at Asbury Lanes in 2019, we picked up a copy of their latest record, Bellicose, a fantastic rock album with hard hitting guitars and great lyrical invention.  We look forward to the possibility of gigs in 2021, and of sharing the stage with The Extensions, maybe at John and Peter’s in New Hope, where we first met Brian back in the days when gigs were a thing.

And, in case you missed it, here is the music video for “Hymn (part 1)” that our saxophonist Anna made in August!