Folk music has always been less about technique and more about being a vessel for feeling, self-expression and confession. Surviving every technological shift by remaining fundamentally human, it continues to exert a quiet pull across generations. Nick Rattigan’s long-running project Current Joys is a striking example of that impulse carried into the present. Built on vulnerability and emotional exposure, his songs drift between lo-fi folk and indie rock, often sounding fragile to the point of collapse, yet held together by a quiet melodic intuition and a sense of raw honesty. In recent years, Current Joys has found a new audience through social media, where his song “Kids” has taken on a second life, proving that deeply personal songs can still resonate with younger listeners discovering them for the first time. After early releases like the debut “Wild Heart” (2013) and “A Different Age” (2018), Rattigan continued to refine his songwriting on 2024’s “East My Love”. Recent singles such as “Dumb” and “Road Song” suggest that even more is on the horizon. With that momentum behind him, Current Joys brings his intimate, open-wound songwriting to Way Out West this summer.