12 tracks, including two new bonus tracks unavailable on the Japanese release!! Occult Radiance is Fleeting Joys' follow-up to their debut album, Despondent Transponder - which was touted as "Loveless II" on blogs and fanzines around the world - then quickly sold out of the 3,000 initial pressing - selling as high as $100 on eBay afterwards! "Swirling guitars, layers of noise, drugged out soft male and female vocals going back and forth sounding like part love, part death, part hope, part sadness...as if they've turned their instruments into liquid and poured them into your ears." "The duo from northern California, John and Rorika Loring, attack their songs a little harder than MBV ever did - kind of like grunge-friendly shoegaze. " John Loring = guitars + vocals + engineering + mixing + mastering. Rorika = bass + vocals + keyboards + loudly voiced opinions on all the previous! The album splits drumming duties between Matt McCord (Zach Hill, Ed Harcourt, Cake, Ed Buller, Chase Pagan, The Arlenes) and Chris Woodhouse (The Mayyors, The Oh Sees). All of them live in the same neighborhood within walking distance. Sold out shows with Ulrich Schnauss in Los Angeles' Troubadour, San Francisco's Bottom of the Hill and London's Sonic Cathedral helped cement the band's reputation for being able to rock while recreating this complex sound live. College radio across the country have embraced Fleeting Joys...as well as around the world: France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Russia, Japan, Hong Kong, Phillipines, Australia...