Biography
Maximum Joy are an English post-punk band from Bristol, England, formed in 1981 and reunited in 2015. Pitchfork compared their sound to "one of the Slits backed by the Gang of Four, while PopMatters said, "Musically, the group’s use of complex percussion, horns, danceable bass lines, and overtly English female vocals built a bridge between the worlds of Afrobeat, reggae, avant-garde jazz, funk and pop". Bandcamp state ‘Maximum Joy is pivotal to the history of post-punk…'
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
43 releases · 11 albums · active 1981–2024
- Production · 31
- Performance · 22
- Other credits · 12
- Engineering · 4
Studios: Berry Street Studio · Studio 80 · Stage One Studio, London · The Lodge (3)