What do we sound like?

 

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  I apologize for the quality of these recordings. I haven't mastered the sound bite yet!

The Sound of Joule has gone through an evolution throughout the four years us four bums have been together. We started out playing stuff that sounded like Helmet. Actually, that's a real insult to Page Hamilton. At best it was like shitty alternative punk music. Then we got into shitty pop punk typed music which progressed into punk hard-core, which progressed into very hardcore stuff, which became emo-core.
When we thought we were breaking up  and decided not to, I figured we needed to try something completely new. So if anyone at the "Last Battle" that heard our songs was shocked , then our goal was fulfilled. The simplicity and happiness of them was completely  intended along with the non-distorted guitars, which I am growing fond of. I'm sick of writing boring hard-core songs. They're dull. I've been sick of it for a long time.
I'm starting to write songs in different keys and drawing on different types of music, especially Jazz. In fact, I think that some of the new songs will go a step further by unconventional chord progressions and  key changes and more  invented modes. I'm starting to integrate stolen peices into our work. nursery rhymes seem to show up by coincidence alot.
So, they might piss people off.
Then again they might entice someone to actually do something musically new or different.
I don't really care. I'm not trying to impress anyone but myself.I could sit on my ass all day and pick out four extremely catchy and derivative chords when we jam, or I could make up a real song that is at least only derivative in an untypical way.
So to finish this lecture, to answer the question, Joule is anti-what you expect. We hope you plug your ears, as long as we enjoy what we hear.