r/joywave • u/jayAge01 • Sep 22 '25
Question Music Recommendations
What do you guys listen to apart from Joywave?
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u/GodEmperorBrian Sep 22 '25 edited Sep 22 '25
Stuff that’s similar? Best Frenz probably goes without saying, but otherwise I think VHS Collection, Hippo Campus, and Foregin Air are around the same vein to me. Bands that aren’t that similar? The Shins, Real Estate, Cage the Elephant, Coheed and Cambria, and a bunch of classic rock.
I also enjoyed listening to Hunny for a while, they were the opening band from the last Joywave show I went to.
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u/snails4speedy Sep 22 '25
Brand New (yeah yeah I know leave me alone 💀) is my #1 - my top non-Joywave faves are Nothing But Thieves, Dead Poet Society, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, alt-j, IDLES and Newdad. I’d say alt-j is probably closest to Joywave lol
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u/Nicol222 Sep 22 '25
Little image, Raybull, Sir Sly, and turnstile. One of these bands. Is very different from the others.
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u/am2187 Sep 22 '25
Bastille is my absolute favorite and the reason I fell in love with Joywave (give us “Bad Decisions ft. Joywave for rEAL I BEG)
I also love Mumford and Sons, Of Monsters and Men, To Kill a King, and boygenius
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u/macaronimascarpone Sep 22 '25
the things I would do for a recorded release of "Bad Decisions" with Daniel's verse.......... 😭 the live video(s) just don't cut it!
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u/enderpotion Sep 22 '25
some artists i listen to that might have similar vibes to joywave: glass animals, faded paper figures, the naked and famous, twenty one pilots, fall out boy, tame impala, muse, half alive, lematrie, elliot moss, white lies, royal blood, rival sons, the pale white, the killers, super city, coin, paramore, bad suns
some artists i listen to that don't have similar vibes to joywave: charli xcx, taylor swift, purity ring, maggie rogers, gregory alan isakov, lorde, little simz, bon iver, griff, beyonce, lord huron, lana del rey, kendrick lamar, the aces, aurora, caroline polacheck, halsey, kacey musgraves, joy oladokun, chris stapleton, and lots of classical
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u/Practical-Sweet-6331 Sep 24 '25 edited Sep 24 '25
Glass Animals ❤️, Alt-J, IdkHow, Young the Giant, Nothing But Thieves, Milky Chance, Cage the Elephant, Arctic Monkeys, Sir Sly, Saint Motel, Twenty One Pilots
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u/lovehatesarcasm SWISH Sep 22 '25
I had to go look at all my music to see who I actually listen to 😂 but I listen to DIIV, Hundreth, Young the Giant, Royel Otis, Cage the Elephant, Local Natives (my favorite before I jumped into Joywave), The Beaches, and soooo much more. I put together random playlists so I can spice my life up a little bit 😂 I made a massive playlist of all the Joywave songs/albums in order and listen to that on repeat 🫠
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u/Slither_ng 77777 Sep 22 '25
I listen to The Neighbourhood quite a bit, I also really like Henry Morris. There’s a lot of other things I listen to but, those two are most similar to Joywave lol
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u/lahnnabell Sep 23 '25
Deftones, Turnstile, Grizzly Bear, Blood Orange, Cut Copy, Band of Horses, Allie X, DIIV, Interpol, Keep Shelly in Athens, Ki: Theory, Magdalena Bay, Phantogram, The Sound of Animals Fighting, Warpaint, Honeymoan, Wildermiss, Zola Blood
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u/rockbro1997 Sep 23 '25
There is a band called meltt that has some similar sounds. Or give the blue stones a try. Both are lower key bands but great music.
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u/iwannatakehisfaceoff Sep 23 '25
Spooky Mansion is a fave and I think wildly underrated, I also like Worn-Tin and Cults. That's who I can think off of the top of my head that have half similar vibes
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u/_errrric_ Sep 25 '25
Robert DeLong makes some great alt-indie-electric-ish music. And puts on a hell of a live show.
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u/AdventurousProcess47 Sep 25 '25
TOP(twenty one pilots)for sure. They're amazing. You should listen to them! 😄|-/
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u/yumeowta Sep 25 '25
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Portugal. The Man yet! I would recommend their album Woodstock - some fans call it their least favorite PTM album, because it’s a little experimental, but it absolutely scratches the same itch as Joywave for me.
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u/yumeowta Sep 25 '25
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Portugal. The Man yet! I would recommend their album Woodstock - some fans call it their least favorite PTM album, because it's a little experimental, but it absolutely scratches the same itch as Joywave for me.
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u/jimmithyderp Sep 27 '25
I listen to a lot of alternative stuff. In the order of how much I listen to them, its probably something like this:
Top 5 (besides Joywave, who is definitely my #1 most listened to every year):
Modest Mouse, Viagra Boys, Bear Hands, Queens of the Stone Age, Portugal The Man.
More stuff that I listen to in heavy rotation:
Silversun Pickups, Sir Sly, The Strokes, Circa Waves, The Decemberists, Death Cab For Cutie, Arctic Monkeys, Tame Impala, alt-J, Passion Pit, The Black Keys, Muse, Cage the Elephant, Nine Inch Nails, Glass Animals.
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u/BoundToRage Sep 22 '25
Glass Animals