Maximum Joy

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…'

Similar Artists

A Certain Ratio

Pylon

Au Pairs

Public Image Limited

Young Marble Giants

Gang of Four

The Fall

Wire

Delta 5

Swell Maps

Killing Joke

Mission Of Burma

The Slits

23 Skidoo

Magazine

The Raincoats

The Feelies

Suicide

Siouxsie and The Banshees

Spizzenergi

Chrome

The Soft Boys

Josef K

The Flying Lizards

Medium Medium

Bush Tetras

Orange Juice

ESG

Lizzy Mercier Descloux