Joys Union Group is a new Texas group that aims to blur the lines between new age jazz and New Weird America -esque psychedelia and Trouble In Mind is honored to unveil Boredom Euphoria their stunning debut album. The group is led by Neil Lord (Future Museums) alongside Michael C. Sharp (Uniform Sungod Impalers) Kristine Reaume (Sungod) and Dailey Toliver (Molly Burch). The album was mixed by Ben Greenberg & mastered by Andrew Weathers. While the album still skirts the boundaries of the ambient & kosmiche zones Lord is known for is his solo Future Museums project Joys Union Group fully feels like an organic living entity rather than a sequence of electronic signals; heady deep jammy & blissful. Leading off with the serene Cloud Paint the album arrives like a spring sunrise as shafts of light peek through the treeline leading into the title track Boredom Euphoria with it s percussive swing driving under guitar & key splashes & embellished by a shimmering cascading flute melody. Shimmering Surface & Portrero saunter forward next both exuding the full weight of the Texas sun over their acoustic melancholy feeling like an addendum to Bruce Langhorne s mythic Hired Hand soundtrack. Fragile Chrysalis kicks off side two with it s drums swells & horn punctuations sounding like Electric Miles jamming with Bardo Pond. Laughter In the Sky is a mellower affair with the flute returning to season the song s lilting melody. Fig has echoes of the more studious outings from the post-rock era while closer Wiser ambles home pleasantly atop a buzzing electric guitar lick that feels like the natural throughline from Fripp s guitar work with Eno. Boredom Euphoria is released on limited Lemon Yellow vinyl & cassette as well as streaming in-full on most digital service providers