Violent Joy

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The concept of “the studio as an instrument” was the ethos that birthed Violent Joy, the shape shifting production-duo comprised of Brian Byrne and Ryan Hunter. The two multi-instrumentalists found an unexpected home in New York based Tonehouse Studios, years after Hunter had moved to the west coast. What started as a loose plan to spend one weekend in a studio creating for one of their various other projects quickly morphed into Hunter flying from California to New York once every month for all of 2018. The pair felt they’d caught lightning in a bottle during their initial four day stint at their adopted headquarters and decided to pursue a body of work that encapsulated their new found energy. Feeling limited by the traditional guitar-band dynamic and eschewing any real songwriting hierarchy, Byrne and Hunter found a revived sense of sonic possibility, using every tool in their collective arsenal during the extended studio sessions. These marathons became a blur of creative output resulting in an expansive sound that evokes nostalgic notes embedded within their signature songwriting capabilities.