Joyeria makes Duller Grey a debut-album warning about tech, nostalgia and decay

Joyeria’s Duller Grey gives the 1 July digest a useful dose of anti-platform gloom. The UK-based singer-songwriter has announced debut album Decay Decay Decay, due 31 July via Dead Cactus, and the lead single examines a present where technology has not delivered utopia so much as precision-targeted garbage. Joyeria’s statement about keeping the album off streaming is just as central to the story as the song. He argues that systems designed around monetizing the user cannot remain democratic or meritocratic, which is the kind of complaint many artists feel but fewer build into a release strategy. Duller Grey sounds like a song about the future losing its brightness and nostalgia turning from comfort into retreat. The title is beautifully bleak. The grey is not even dramatic anymore. It is just duller, and apparently getting darker.

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