Joviale – Mount Crystal [Electric Periwinkle LP]

Joviale makes music that feels like a show; drama lies in the tension between pop impulse and something more cerebral and sensorial. A multidisciplinary artist from North London, they came up as a theater kid and now harness their prismatic creative expression across mediums, fusing components of visual art, performance, and recording into a singular world. In 2021, following their Hurricane Belle EP, which caught the attention of Pitchfork and Crack Magazine, they quietly receded from view in an effort to learn and evolve. In 2025, out from behind the curtains comes Mount Crystal, their full-length debut on Ghostly International, an ascendent conceptual album that reintroduces Joviales point of view. Songs are electric and soulful, dashed with jazzy experimentation, rhythmic rock, and vibrant sound design, all realized alongside co-producers John Carroll Kirby and Jkarri and a cast of collaborators, including Sam Wilkes, Carter Lang, and Will Miller, among others. Initially imagined as a play, Mount Crystal brims and bursts with life peril, humor, and the buzz of the human spirit conjuring a metaphysical climb that transcends the audio format. With plans to further manifest the vision as a live set and more, Joviale sets the course:

Mount Crystal’s lore is driven by the embodiment of desire, danger, and desperation. A mirrored dimension in a distant reality where nothing is left unsaid. These chapters crave to tear apart the illusion of pleasure by alchemising the unrelenting pain Ive experienced in my efforts to love, deny, and embrace the sweetest melodies with the sweetest friends.

Tracklist:

1. The Mountain (intro)
2. Snow
3. Heavy
4. Crush
5. HARK!
6. Foul Play
7. Let Me Down
8. Moonshine
9. Both Ways
10. MC (intermission)
11. Beam
12. Blu
13. Disappear
14. Wishing

UPC: 804297845234
Label: Ghostly Int’l
Release Date: 9.12.25
Format: Vinyl