“The ‘Joy in Living’ is the bliss that one might experience while realizing one’s own threshold for continuing. Playing while on pause, this album was born out of the Covid-19 era. The mood of these songs reflects some of the stretching I did while isolating and wearing my comfort mask; Longing for closeness within the persisting distance. I hope that this collaboration, (between these songs and your curiosity), is as consoling as it was for me to create it.”
Psychedelic, lofi, crunchy, and the freakiest of folk, Joy in Living “Say Cheese & Die!!” by Rip Florence on Santa Cruz’s Shallow Dive Records celebrates the wonderful weirdness of life through free-flowing psychic romps and jams as catchy as they are confusing.
