outh London singer and songwriter Joy Crookes returns in 2025 with a breathtakingly candid, stunningly tactile new album, Juniper. Heartbreaking, humorous, provocative and provoking in equal measure, Juniper continues to establish Joy as one of the country’s most outstanding vocalists and one of our most gifted songwriters. She’s a once-in-a-generation artist.   Joy released her debut album, the deeply intimate and voraciously vibrant Skin in 2021. The album traversed familial love, generational trauma, breakups, and politics from the perspective of a young South London woman. As witty as it was wounded, Joy’s attention to lyrical detail and inherent gift for melody was immediately apparent; here was an artist that embodied the mercurial capabilities of those before her – Nina Simone, Amy Winehouse, Nick Drake, Sarah Vaughan – while remaining utterly singular in her style. Skin was both a commercial and critical success, landing at number 5 on the UK Official Charts and receiving BRIT nominations, a Mercury Prize nod and rave reviews from the Guardian and the NME, among others. Skin also attracted a fiercely loyal fanbase and Joy sold out her first UK tour in just hours, as well clocking up millions and millions of streams, working with brands including Lexus and adidas, performing at every major festival and appearing on Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Late Show with James Corden and Jools Holland’s Hootenanny.