Fleeting Joys

Sacramento-based shoegaze duo Fleeting Joys play a moody variation on the noise-pop blueprint drawn by bands like My Bloody Valentine, writing sweetly longing tunes filled with blown-out guitars and hazy vocals. Their self-issued 2006 debut, Despondent Transponder, slowly gained an underground cult following, and the duo occasionally resurfaced with additional releases such as 2019's Speeding Away to Someday. Married couple Rorika and John Loring began playing music as Fleeting Joys in 2005, with Rorika playing bass and electronics, John handling effects-saturated guitars, an...