Amo Joy is a four, sometimes three and somtimes five, peice indie psych-pop band from Indianapolis IN. It all started when I (Adam) first learned how to speak. I couldn't pronounce my own name, and given the fact that I always spoke in third person for some unkown reason, this posed a problem. I called myself Amo and it's all my parents heard for about a year. Fast forward about twenty years and I am in a band called Electric Kaleidoscope where I wrote plently of songs that the other members didn't think would fit with our sound. So, as most musicians in said situation would do, I started a solo project. Being bad at coming up with names I called myself Amo Autunno and started recording the songs that my band didn't like. I wanted to record them with a better drummer and bassist than myself so I enlisted fellow Comrades member Paul Cobb and Steve Trowbridge to help. We realised that this was fun and we should play more often. We also soon realised that the songs were lacking keyboard and a whole lot of other things. Luckily our good friend Alison Pitt could play keyboard and sing nicely so natuarlly we convinced her to play with us. Thus Amo Joy was formed officialy in january of 2007. We started playing and recording right away and by may of 2007 we had finished our first full length album "The Dictatorial Soiree" and released it ourselves. In Janury of 2008 we went on a southern US/east coast tour during which we realised that touring is amazing. We're now currently recording our 2nd full length and an EP, one which will be released by our friends at Royal Rhino Flying Records early this summer. We plan to try to tour a lot this summer so keep your eyes peeled.

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