Production · Performance
Maximum Joy
English post-punk band
Bristol, United Kingdom • b. 1979-01-01
Maximum Joy is credited on 27 releases across 11 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1982–2021 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
27
Pressings credited
11
Albums
5
Decades active
8
In collections
Biography
Maximum Joy are an English post-punk band from Bristol, England, formed in 1981 and reunited in 2015. Pitchfork compared their sound to "one of the Slits backed by the Gang of Four, while PopMatters said, "Musically, the group’s use of complex percussion, horns, danceable bass lines, and overtly English female vocals built a bridge between the worlds of Afrobeat, reggae, avant-garde jazz, funk and pop". Bandcamp state ‘Maximum Joy is pivotal to the history of post-punk…'
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Credited work
27 releases · 11 albums · active 1982–2021
- Production · 20
- Performance · 14
- Engineering · 4
- Other credits · 3
Studios: Berry Street Studio · The Lodge (3) · Blackwing Studios · RKO Studios London
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