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“I'm leaving my teen years behind as this record comes out,” 19-year-old Julianna Joy says. “It's crazy that this record kind of sits as a goodbye to my childhood!”

Due out in 2022, the prodigious pop singer-songwriter’s EP Garden of Eden sits in the crosshairs of youthful innocence and profundity beyond her years. Its seven songs span es- capist dance bops and contemplative ballads, taking musical influence from alternative rock, pop, classic rock, and psychedelia.

Co-written with Grammy-nominated producer Teddy Geiger (Shawn Mendes, Maroon 5, Lizzo), Garden of Eden incorporates these styles into an impressively uniform sound. Joy credits Geiger’s abounding creativity and open-mindedness — not to mention her impressive roster of collaborators like Danny Parker, John Ryan, Mags Duval, Juan Ariza, and Evan Voytas — as a creative spark that helped expand her own artistry.

“Working with Teddy was incredible! She pushed me to do better, to write better, and it's some- thing I am so forever grateful for,” Joy exudes. “She wrote so many of the songs that sound- tracked my life growing up. Sometimes it’s hard to comprehend that one ‘butterfly effect’ mo- ment from one of her songs led me here.”

Full of synth keyboard and percussion textures, layered with acoustic guitar strumming and electric guitar solos, sampled strings, jazzy basslines, and more, the musicality on Garden of Eden seems to reflect the emotional chaos of its songs: Joy only graduated high school in De- cember 2019 before taking a leap of faith to move from the Chicago suburbs to Los Angeles and peruse music full-time.

“I was really struggling with it because moving to go do such a crazy career is such a hard thing to get support for,” she says, reflecting on those early days. But, she continues, “I learned a lot about myself while writing the record and being in this weird pandemic state of mind, while also trying to dive into emotions I didn’t want to deal with ... the feeling of change and not being able to handle it, not feeling ready. But at the same time, wanting to go out and experience normal human things, knowing I’m about to move across the country and do something that isn't guar- anteed.”

These themes present themselves throughout Garden of Eden. The hilarious “Teenage Boys,” which was written in the same iconic studio where Fleetwood Mac recorded Rumors, details Joy’s frustrations in dating. “Prescriptions” truthfully describes the struggles of finding the best mental health regimen. “California,” a haunting, yet uplifting ode to her new home, always sparks her synesthesia in hues of teal like the color of the water off the Pacific Coast Highway.

While the songs on Garden of Eden highlight Joy’s growth and musical exploration, she’s been a prolific writer since childhood. Having composed more than 200 songs in her teen years, she attended Grammy Camp in Los Angeles at age 15, where she studied music with industry pro- fessionals, fellow performers, producers, and instrumentalists. By the summer of 2019, Joy re- turned to LA to record her first EP, Cherries, which released in February 2020. And thanks to the focal track, “Cherry Bomb” (which has been streamed almost 1.5 million times on Spotify), she’s begun to lay the foundation for a loyal fan base across even more platforms — through Spotify editorial playlist placement (SALT) and Apple Music editorial placement (Breaking Singer/Song- writer) and several TikTok influencer playlists. Joy is currently signed to a publishing deal with Hipgnosis Songs.