When was the last time you found yourself ¡°in hell¡°? For Adam Graham, frontman for Japanese rock act Joy Opposites, it was last year.
¡°The creation of this record was hell in a lot of ways,¡± Graham says with a laugh. ¡°Not in that it was a particularly difficult birth, but just in that we were in a really weird place with the business side of the band and that threatened to swallow everything whole.¡±
The 38-year-old vocalist and guitarist, originally from Northwich, England, might be referring to Joy Opposites¡¯ departure from Ivy Records although he doesn¡¯t go into details. But he admits that, while a bit chaotic, the experience of ¡°going through hell¡± resulted in an abundance of artistic inspiration.
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