CANADIAN shoegazers No Joy will showcase new album at Coventry Just Dropped In on October 19.
Now the solo project of Jasamine White-Gluz, fifth album Bugland is the first new material for five years. Bugland finds White-Gluz teaming up with co-producer and renowned future fusionist Fire-Toolz, aka Angel Marcloid.
The album was, at least in part, inspired by White-Gluz’s move to a more rustic area of Quebec, something that also explains the gap between albums.
The most recent No Joy release was 2020’s Motherhood, which Pitchfork described as “a shoegaze album with a rare scope and an even rarer sense of fun and imagination”.
“The wait wasn’t intentional,” White-Gluz explains, “but I think rural living made me tune out the noise of the music biz and focus more inwards, writing and taking my damn time.”
