Most years, there's that one album i just listen to so many times that the Poor-Ass Christmas may as well just be a copy of that album. 2008 was Kerrang!'s Best of 2007, for example, although in the end i was so sick of it that none of those songs made the cut. 2012 was very nearly t.A.T.u.'s Waste Management. This year, that album is Wolf's Law by The Joy Formidable.
I don't know why it took me so long to get to this point. I first came into contact with The Joy Formidable three years ago when i went to see A Place to Bury Strangers open for them, and they blessed me with one of those performances where every single note rips through your flesh and embeds itself in your heart, reminding you why you love music. Why i didn't buy their album at the show, i don't remember, but Finding Wolf's Law in the clearance bin at Half-Price Books this year was excavating treasures from the tomb. Even the guy at the register was astounded by my find.
It would seem that i listened to it (probably on Spotify) and didn't like it at the time. Well, if i could send a message to past me, it would be "you are wrong." All of their albums are fucking balls-out epic. And i mean that exact word. "Epic" is a term that gets abused frequently on the internet, but i think it's wholly appropriate here. Each of their songs has such an enormity to it that getting swallowed up in the music is less of an option and more of an inevitability. When they named their first major release "The Big Roar," it was an accurate description of what the package contained.
So i don't know what's going on the PAC this year from Wolf's Law. I think i've narrowed it down to Maw Maw Song, Little Blimp, or Bats. The first of those is my favorite, but it's also almost seven minutes long, which is a pretty big chunk of real estate on one of these comps. That won't necessarily stop me, though.
(I also wouldn't totally count This Ladder Is Ours out yet, either.)
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