Mt. Joy - Hope We Have Fun

Mt. Joy - Hope We Have Fun


With Hope We Have Fun, Mt. Joy offers a warmly vulnerable and sonically adventurous fourth album that feels like a deep exhale after years of heavy touring and quiet reckonings. It’s a record shaped by memory, mortality, joy, and a desire to hold onto the fleeting moments that define us. Drawing inspiration from the weight of real-life fan stories and the band's evolving personal lives, the album swings between intimate folk musings and expansive indie-rock grooves—holding hands with both sorrow and celebration.

Each track carries the fingerprints of lived experience: tributes to lost friends (Lucy), existential self-sabotage (Scared I’m Gonna Fuck You Up), and the strange comforts of dance and distraction (She Wants to Go Dancing). Featuring collaborations with Gigi Perez and Nathaniel Rateliff, Hope We Have Fun doesn’t try to reinvent Mt. Joy, but instead refines their most endearing traits—lush instrumentation, earnest lyrics, and a knack for building entire emotional worlds within a 3-minute song.

It’s not just a wish—it’s a prayer: Hope We Have Fun feels like a reminder to be present, messy, and real.

💡 Album Highlights

  • More More More opens the album with a slow-burning acoustic build into an electrified emotional release, reflecting post-tour restlessness and longing. 

  • Lucy is a poignant tribute to a fan battling brain cancer. With uplifting acoustic tones and deep emotional resonance, proceeds support the American Brain Tumor Association. 

  • Pink Lady delivers a funky, unpredictable energy with standout Wurlitzer keys and a playful Lou Reed–esque vocal styling from Quinn, channeling a trippy urban psychedelia. 

  • Wild and Rotten, featuring Nathaniel Rateliff, is a rustic duet evoking nostalgia and small-town romance.

🧭 Overall Context

  • Recorded over three years, this album balances Mt. Joy’s signature indie-folk aesthetic with rock textures and a renewed focus on vulnerability, togetherness, and creative experimentation. 

  • Critics describe Hope We Have Fun as heartfelt, intimately arranged, and lyrically grounded—perfect for campfire listening or reflective drives under open skies. 

Would you like a track-by-track exploration, lyric analysis, or comparisons with Orange Blood or Rearrange Us?

🎶 Hope We Have Fun – Track List (13 songs, approx. 40 minutes)

  1. More More More

  2. Coyote

  3. In The Middle (featuring Gigi Perez)

  4. Pink Lady

  5. God Loves Weirdos

  6. Scared I’m Gonna Fuck You Up

  7. Lucy

  8. Groove In Gotham

  9. Wild and Rotten (featuring Nathaniel Rateliff)

  10. Highway Queen

  11. She Wants To Go Dancing

  12. You Are Who She Loves

  13. Hope We Have Fun