Fleeting Joys... for those waiting for a new My Bloody Valentine album

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Perhaps a bit too much Slowdive in the mix (not that that's a bad thing), but I haven't heard a better My Bloody Valentine rip-off yet:

Website here:

http://fleetingjoys.com/

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Another one?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

The world doesn't need another MBV soundalike, but I must admit they seem to know what they're doing.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

Pleasant enough textures, but ultimately identikit without Shield's songwriting/melodies.

― i'm from hollywood, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

...and exploration of new sounds. I wish someone would marry together that sense of experimental production and pop tunes.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

it's remarkable mimicry. the guitars (and keys?) sound exactly like certain parts of loveless, but the drums are really badly recorded on a couple of those clips. sounds like the drummer's wearing shorts. i don't know if that's a fair description, but if there was a live show, i wouldn't be surprised to see this drummer wearing a pair of shorts with an elastic wasteband.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. Maybe Kevin Shields should just hire a bunch of neo-shoegazer bands and have them tour as MBV. Kind of like what the Blue Man Group does.

― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

sonically they're the closest thing to mbv i've heard by far. maybe too close, but hey, i guess if you're going to rip off mbv, rip off mbv.

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

well ok, rip off comment aside (i stand by it, but it sounds more negative/cynical than i intended), this is gorgeous and i've ordered it.

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

Firstworldman OTM, the drums sound kinda off, but other than that I'm a big enough MBV fan to be left curious at least.

― Gerard (Gerard), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

can't get the link to work but are they anything like sugar plant?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

gots to say serena maneesh come pretty close too, though much more brutal. anyone heard 'em?

― odtron5000, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

well ok, rip off comment aside (i stand by it, but it sounds more negative/cynical than i intended), this is gorgeous and i've ordered it.

Haha, I think I will too.

They only seem to have two members watching the video, so maybe one of them played the drums, rather than a dedicated drummer, which would explain the flabiness. Did noone tell them MBV used sequenced drums on Loveless? haha.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

but the drums are really badly recorded on a couple of those clips,

so, exactly like MBV then?

― splates (splates), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 06:16 (nineteen years ago)

hohohoho.

Actually, I've always loved the MBV 'Isn't Anything' drum sound, it's just that Colm's drumming was often very sloppy , which I also loved :-)

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 07:30 (nineteen years ago)

gots to say serena maneesh come pretty close too, though much more brutal. anyone heard 'em?

Yeah, they manage that MBV vibe at times too without using the same sonic palette. I wanted to see one of their shows earlier this year but couldn't make it.

can't get the link to work but are they anything like sugar plant?

From the samples they have up, Fleeting Joys are a lot closer to Loveless than they are to the Sugar Plant I've heard (Happy/Trance Mellow).

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

I love the fact that the blurb on their MySpace site features a snippet of a review by "Ed Slack, Independent Music Critic ".

Does he post here?

― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

sounds great but the songs are thin on the ground. they should spend more time on their tunes and less on their plagiarism

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Yeah, there are some nice moments on the album, but it's a little underwhelming. There are a lot people writing pop music but few who do it well. This sounds like Loveless, but Loveless is hooks, hooks, hooks.

To Shield's skill, when Loveless came out, I remember initially being put off by how wrong it sounded to me, but there was enough catchiness in it to pull me in and make me want to hear it more.

― Bill in Chicago, Thursday, 30 August 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

seventeen years pass...

I re-listened to this album recently* and it was fine... until I got to to "Magnificent Oblivion" which was by far the best song on the record, buried deep into side 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UDzyL_PMiM

*I bought it at their sparsely-attended show at The Hemlock... 18 years ago? They are firmly within my top 5 shoegaze-revival bands from Sacramento.

― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 14 November 2024 21:44 (one year ago)

one year passes...

From John Loring on the Fleeting Joys fb page this evening: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19vGH68h5Z/

I’m sad to share with the Fleeting Joys community that Rorika passed in late July. I’m sorry I couldn’t share it earlier. She was my person. She had been dealing with a serious illness since 2000 and she went out like a Viking.
She was fierce and feminine. She was a glorious woman of immense strength, softness, intelligence, style, charm, and integrity.
Her voice was a very special gem. Her musical taste was immaculate and exploratory, and her sense of humor was surprisingly random and original. She was as spiritual as she was a prepper. She was an incredibly involved and caring mother.
She loved music, and was grateful for the people she connected with over the years. The world is less special without her.

― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 23 November 2025 03:56 (yesterday)

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