First off, Joy Zipper is an actual person and whilst she’s not in the band, she does lend her rather comely moniker to album covers and press shots with and without baby daughter in arms.
From Long Island, New York, Joy Zipper parade another fine lo-fi, pant swinging vehicle to herald the release of the album, American Whip in January of 2003.
With vocals and production alike steeped heaps of glorious honey and sticky sunshine, ‘Christmas Song’ recalls the fey whimsicality of Euro-indie lads and lasses, The Wannadies, and The Cardigans, as well as the spaced-out otherworldliness of The Byrds, whilst ‘MoonMoonMoon’ recalls the resolutely English, Dream Academy and US stoners, Mazzy Star.
Dashboard sweethearts or cruising classics, this is a compact little collection that just about justifies the interest of readymade legends like Beck and David Holmes and augurs well for indie in general.