No Joy
- bizzarre
- Jun 17
- 1 min read
No Joy announce new Big Life, Big Leaf EP via Sonic Cathedral / Hand Drawn Dracula, and share video for the title track and first single.
Canadian shoegazers No Joy release a brand new three-track EP, Big Life, Big Leaf, via Sonic Cathedral (in Europe) and Hand Drawn Dracula (ROW) on August 21.
The follow-up to last year’s widely acclaimed fifth album Bugland – which was named Best New Music on Pitchfork and last week was nominated for Canada’s prestigious Polaris Prize – it once again finds Jasamine White-Gluz teaming up with ascendent new Warp signing and future-fusionist Fire-Toolz. It expands on the album’s sound for a bigger, brasher and bolder approach, which according to Jasamine taps into the “heavy but effervescent energy” of personal loss, something that she and Fire-Toolz both experienced over the same weekend during the recording sessions.
The title track is out now on all digital platforms. It was co-written with Jorge Elbrecht (Japanese Breakfast and Sky Ferreira) and, according to Jasamine,
“explores the absurd, combining musical ideas that shouldn’t really make sense together”
and with its mix of buoyant beats and metal heavy riffs (courtesy of Kittie’s Tara McLeod).
The lyrics provide a further contradiction:
“I was exploring the boundless pain one feels when it is time to say goodbye to someone or something. It is also during those moments that it is important to remember, ironically, to have joy. To mourn is also to celebrate.”
No Joy festival dates
July 3 – Roskilde, DE – Roskilde Festival
July 17 – Quebec, QC – Festival d’Ete Quebec
