The Joy Formidable - Into the Blue

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🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The Joy Formidable - "Into the Blue" from the 2021 album Into The Blue on Enci Records.

Welsh band The Joy Formidable return with their first new music in three years. Today's Song of the Day is the title track from their forthcoming fifth album, Into The Blue, out August 20th. While the song was written in their hometown of Wales, it was completed in their new adopted home of Utah, which is also where the accompanying music video was filmed.

“I am always daydreaming in the bathtub between recordings," frontwoman Rhiannon “Ritzy” Bryan says of the watery clip. “That diffuse thinking where your mind wanders freely — I always finish songs when I’m in that state. The idea that your imagination, that escape into another, deeper world can sometimes create a stronger connection with yourself.”

She describes today's Song of the Day as being "about surrendering to love and magic," adding, “Having the courage to enjoy a new journey and the mystery and excitement of something unexpected. It’s about opening your eyes to beauty and love again. Making it to the other side. Whilst not conceived as a metaphor for the times we all live in now, it certainly turned out that way.”

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0:00.0	You see me, for what I am, I don't have to guess anymore
0:19.0	That slow down, the moon's big up
0:24.0	It gets just enough then we draw less
0:29.0	Cause things go bad, but it's real and bad
0:34.0	Right turn and slowly empty me
0:39.0	Into the blue, into the blue ones again
0:46.0	Just one big wave, just one big wave
1:02.0	Just one big wave
1:09.0	When I watch you, from across the way
1:14.0	Everything still slowed you again
1:18.0	Just that moment of being sad
1:23.0	She's less than you in tune
1:27.0	Cause I'll be here, go inside our sight
1:32.0	Great for him to release from something
1:37.0	Into the blue, into the blue ones again
1:46.0	Cause now I see this place
1:54.0	With skill on land, don't say the move
1:59.0	I love the past that timesake your hand and guide you
2:06.0	With time to move, into the blue ones again
2:26.0	I know it's rare, we need time more again
2:30.0	Remember what others have lost
2:35.0	Go back to the place that we won't go again
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