Reflecting on Graceful Degradation, Joyeria describes the EP as a collection of songs that don’t fit neatly into boxes: “little boxes of shadows and unexpected laughter… raw, like a skinned knee. Honest, in the way a chipped teacup holds the stain of too much tea.” Drawing on experiences from Poland, Canada, and now London — “the city that swallows the unwanted, makes them its own peculiar ghost” — the EP embraces imperfection, searching for meaning in the strange angles and fractured edges of modern existence.
