Joy Crookes
Joy Crookes returns with brand new music in 2025 that continues to establish her as one of the country’s most outstanding vocalists and one of our most gifted songwriters. She’s a once-in-a-generation artist.
Joy hasn’t been afraid to take her time before returning to the spotlight - she has taken stock over the past three years and returned with a meaningful arsenal of music, determined not to lose the spirit that had so informed her debut album; the deeply intimate and voraciously vibrant Skin in 2021. The album traversed familial love, generational trauma, breakups, and politics from the perspective of a young South London woman. As witty as it was wounded, Joy’s attention to lyrical detail and inherent gift for melody was immediately apparent; here was an artist that embodied the mercurial capabilities of those before her – Nina Simone, Amy Winehouse, Nick Drake, Sarah Vaughan, Mick Jones – while remaining utterly singular in her style.
Skin was both a commercial and critical success, landing at number 5 on the UK Official Charts and receiving BRIT nominations, a Mercury Prize nod and rave reviews from the Guardian and the NME, among others. Skin also attracted a fiercely loyal fanbase and Joy sold out her first UK tour in just hours, as well clocking up millions and millions of streams, working with brands including Lexus and adidas, performing at every major festival and appearing on Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Late Show with James Corden and joined Ed Sheeran onstage during Jools Holland’s Hootenanny. Stay tuned for more from Joy Crookes in 2025.
