Formed in 2007, The Joy Formidable is a Welsh alternative rock band consisting of Rhiannon "Ritzy" Bryan on lead vocals and guitar, Rhydian Dafydd on bass and backing vocals and Matthew James Thomas on drums and percussion. The band’s debut EP ‘A Balloon Called Moaning’ was released exclusively in Japan at first, and then released in UK the following month. The band received a lot of high praise for their first real musical effort.

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The band’s debut album, ‘The Big Roar’, was released in the beginning of 2011 and featured new versions of some of the songs from their EP. The album got a lot of positive reviews with critics calling it a fantastic debut. Two years later, they released their second album ‘Wolf’s Law’ with, again, a lot of favourable reviews. Most of the album was written during their tour in support of their previous record. 

The next and most recent album ‘Hitch’ was released this year, and was recorded in lead singer Ritzy Bryan's old family home, outside Mold in Wales. The video for the song ‘The Last Thing On My Mind’ consisted of clips of scantily clad men or nude men, which Bryan explained to be in response to the over-sexualisation of women in modern media, stating "We don't condone objectification in general, the point here is, when the media representation is imbalanced, if we're mostly seeing women sexualised or objectified, from a male perspective or otherwise, it's limited, it's damaging and frankly; it's boring too".

You can catch The Joy Formidable live at the Bacardi Nh7 Weekender in Pune from the 2nd to 4th December.