#daniel armbruster

He's lactose intolerant. His only three interests are music, hockey, and cats. He once played the same song 7 times in a row while opening for a bigger band because he didn't like the audience. His near pathological desire for trolling is tempered by moments of true heart and vulnerability. He wrote scathing political songs criticising and parodying the right wing and a heartbreaking song about the Pulse nightclub shooting. On stage he's more stand up comedian than musician.

He described the song Possession as the only true love song in the whole Joywave collection and these are the lyrics:

No but seriously he's obsessed with cats. Half of the Joywave merch features cats. During lockdown he did a live stream about preparing his cat's Rochester style garbage plate dinner, using at least 4 different kinds of cat food.

He's done more long form interviews about the music business, hockey, and Rochester tourism than about his own band.

Speaking of his band, Joywave, these are just some of their promotional pictures:

He forms strange and often antagonistic friendships with other bands where he picks one member to either love bomb or feud with, oftentimes both, in a way that can only be described at a bratty sub looking for someone worthy of putting him in his place.

His girlfriend called herself a Switch on a Pokémon game play through stream and spent the next hour declaring which Pokémon characters were Doms and which were subs.

He has the vibe of an ill Victorian child. He once admitted to crying because after lockdown he met a 5 year old kid who had never seen a cat irl. He grew a mustache because his dad told him that he'd never grow as mustache as good as his.

He often looks like he is being hunted for sport but he is, in fact, the hunter.

Daniel Armbruster, ladies and gentlemen!

Joywave chats with some British strangers (2)

What the fuck is a joywave?

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bit the bullet and took the 4.5 hr drive to go see joywave open for young the giant in Cincinnati absolutely killer show, with a full hour of them at the start!