The Joy Formidable put out a powerful-punch of an album (The Big Roar) last year, and then blazed through concert halls everywhere.  We confess that while their sound grabbed us initially, by the time the band came through Santa Barbara we had grown weary of their somewhat monotonous (though still riveting) distortion sonances.  So it comes as a relief that Wolf’s Law, the first track to be released post-Big Roar, evinces a quantum shift in sound with different instrumentation (now including strings and piano) and more-subdued vocals from singer Ritzy Bryan.

And the official video has some cool effects too.  Check it out below.