Claude says:Vance Joy's debut arrived in 2013 with that impossibly cheerful indie-folk energy—ukulele-bright, lyrically clever, built for people discovering him on a good day. You caught it early that October and let "Riptide" and "From Afar" spin once each, which is the kind of first listen that either sticks around or doesn't, and in this case it didn't quite pull you back.