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    After a self-imposed hiatus to focus on raising his daughter—who lends her talents as lead guitarist and vocalist on the track “Before The Light Takes Us”—and exploring writing and filmmaking, Josh Joplin returns to rock with GpYr (Gap Year). This album not only marks a new chapter in his career, but also reflects the personal and artistic evolution that began with his 2023 album, Figure Drawing.

    Legendary artist manager Russell Carter (Matthew Sweet, Indigo Girls) says of Josh Joplin, “I am willing to bet Josh has written a bad song, but I can tell you I have never heard one—and he has never recorded one.”

    Joplin’s latest full-length release, GpYr—produced by Josh Joplin and Grammy-winning producer Lorenzo Wolff (known for his work on Taylor Swift’s Midnights and Folklore)—lands somewhere between a concept album and a sonic scrapbook. It’s a story of four friends who, over one unforgettable summer and autumn, came together for a mission: to rescue Seely from a therapeutic boarding facility in remote New England. In saving her, they saved each other.
    Spin Magazine says GpYr is "a collection of pop-infused gems that captures the raw energy of Joplin’s earlier works...but with the musical and lyrical layers of the older, wiser musician Joplin has become."

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lyrics

Upstate, up here, up in the starry skies
That never seem as bright
As they do old and wise
Like poets in the night
Inspired by our loneliness
We faced each other and undressed
And found a splinter in the grass
Everything’s changing you beautiful strange thing

CHORUS:
Down under ground, over clouds
We’re coming up roses.
Down under ground, over clouds
We’re coming up roses, coming up roses
Now! Now

The Ides of March kiss you on the cheek
Then pat’s your back and cut’s your throat
Twilight clouds come on so bleak
Button up your only coat!
It’s gonna be a long long time
Before the planets all align
The tides subside and the dark days shine
Everything’s changing you beautiful strange thing
CHORUS

Love, love doesn’t ever look down
Love, love doesn’t ever look down
Love, love doesn’t ever look down
Love, love doesn’t ever look down
Love, Love, Love, Love!

Down under the ground, over the clouds/ Coming up roses now
Down under the ground, over the clouds/ Coming up roses now
Down under the ground, over the clouds/ Coming up roses now
Down under the ground, over the clouds/ Coming up roses now
Down under the ground, over the clouds/ Coming up roses

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from GpYr, released April 9, 2025
CREDITS

Produced by: Josh Joplin and Lorenzo Wolff
Engineered by: Lorenzo Wolff, Rob Gal, Joe McMahon
Mixes by:Joe McMahon, Erin Tonkon *, Rob Gal **
Album art and design by: Josh Joplin Assisted by Jennifer Ching and Dena Springer

Josh Joplin: Guitars, Rhodes, Moog Taurus, omnichord, vocals
Lorenzo Wolff: Bass, guitars, Moog Taurus, synths, organ, kalimba
Kevin Jaoquin Garcia: Drums, percussion
Sarah Goldstone: Piano, synths, organ
Lomie: Lead guitar, backing vocals +
Allen Broyles: Accordian, Juno, backing vocals
Randy Leago: Saxaphones
Emily Holden: Backing vocals
Ani Cordero: Backing vocals
Joe McMahon: Additional Synth
Geoff Melkonian: Backing vocals
Eric Taylor: Persussion
Wes Langlois: Demos, guitar, piano

Recorded at Restoration Sound, Brooklyn NY. Mixed by Joe McMahon at Wow and Flutter, Nashville TN. * Mixed by Erin Tonkon in NYC, NY ** Mixed by Rob Gal in ATL, GA

Copyright 2025
All songs written by Josh Joplin (International House Of Publishing)

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Joplin’s latest full-length release, GpYr—produced by Josh Joplin and Grammy-winning producer Lorenzo Wolff
Spin Magazine says GpYr is "a collection of pop-infused gems that captures the raw energy of Joplin’s earlier works...but with the musical and lyrical layers of the older, wiser musician Joplin has become." ... more

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