Another outfit born from the ashes of Orlando's Introduction to Sunshine that seems to be generating a buzz by serving small tastes of music before delivering the main course is Day Joy. Since hitting the scene earlier this year, the quintet has played the odd live dates and issued a two-song
Animal Noise EP that introduced their sound – dreamy folk pop with surreal-sweet heart-clenching vocal harmonies floating over a luscious mix of light percussion, ukulele, banjo, synthesizers and guitar – to a wider listening audience, and the first single and title track off forthcoming full-length,
Got To Sleep, Mess (due in early 2013 via small plates records), has gotten the thumbs-ups from blogs like I Guess I’m Floating and Pretty Much Amazing. Joining them on this date is El Cantador, a three-piece hailing from Alabama, their tight grooving electro rock built on bouncy synths, wailing electric guitars, bumpin’ bass and steady danceable rhythms.
— Leilani Polk