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Past Night From Glasgow is proud to be re-releasing Joy Zipper's American Whip. American Whip is the second album by the New York dream-pop duo Joy Zipper released in 2003. Praised for its "charming melodies, heart-melting harmonies and hazy lo-fi guitars" forming "an intoxicating alt-pop nectar," the album contains 12 of the most seductive four-minute tracks you'll hear on one album.
2003 - With a real feel for summery pop and garage rock, Joy Zipper could easily slip into tight leathers and come on like The Raveonettes. Just as easily though, their way with spacey atmospherics could see them mutate into a several-headed Orb. American Whip, held up for over a year due to record company complications, sees them land somewhere between the two.
Opening with the warped instrumental "Sunstroke" (as blitzed and stumbling as its name implies), it moves into the breezy, ethereal pop of "Christmas Song", then the driving, scuzzy "Baby You Should Know". It's an impressive start, and it gets better. "Out of the Sun" rides on a garage riff, with vocals flying in from different angles and distances. "Dosed and Became Invisible" is hazy and innovative, while "Alzheimers", as its title suggests, drifts almost psychedelically in fuzzy dementia. Indeed, only the meandering instrumental "VSX" fails to command attention.
Variously produced by the band, David Holmes and My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields, American Whip will certainly not go careering up the charts, but it is conclusive proof that Joy Zipper are one of the finest indie outfits to spring from the East Coast in recent years
Tracklist
Sunstroke
Christmas Song
Baby You Should Know
33x
Out Of The Sun
Drugs
Dosed And Became Invisible
Alzheimers
Ron
In The Never Ending Search For A Suitable Enemy
VSX
Valley Stream