Hello Joyce at The Bends in St. Petersburg, Florida on September 19, 2018. Credit: Brian Mahar

Hello Joyce at The Bends in St. Petersburg, Florida on September 19, 2018. Credit: Brian Mahar

Hello Joyce: Brother Speedo Along with FayRoy and Elizabeth Baker, Hello Joyce is one of just one of three artists to appear on CL’s best of rundown for 2018 and 2017. It’s hard not to be attracted to the band’s super-chill and decadently-waavy take on indie-pop, which it amped up on the Brother Speedo, which’ll induce funny feelings on the insides of cool kids who love bands like Mac Demarco and Triathalon with a passion.

Scroll through a slideshow of 2018's best Tampa Bay music releases or see and sample all of them here. Call your local record store to see if it is carrying the release.

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...