Life is beautiful. The world is cruel. Music still matters. Metric have wrestled with these truths for 15 years, but their new album, Pagans in Vegas, takes them on in an entirely new way.

Creating a sound that deftly jumps between genres, Joywave’s music is grounded in classic songwriting, often injected with house music's energy, the playfulness of disco and an overarching hip-hop spirit. Their How Do You Feel? EP (released on the band’s Hollywood Records imprint Cultco Music in March 2014) demonstrates the bands pointed talent for originality while blending influences. Where any other band might lose its identity in the quest to experiment with so many different sounds, Joywave’s all-embracing approach puts their distinct personality front and center while reinforcing the band’s stance that they are not aiming for the middle. “Music should engage the audience. If we have not elicited a response of some sort, we have not done our job.”