NO JOY // BUGLAND (SINGLE & VIDEO) EXCLAIM! MAGAZINE, BROOKLYN VEGAN, STEREOGUM, THE NEEDLE DROP, PITCHFORK
NO JOY is the project of Jasamine White-Gluz. First coming to wide attention as a three piece band around the release of their 2011 debut LP Ghost Blonde, the project has morphed into Jasamine’s solo project, and she has consistently evolved in unexpected ways over 4 LPs and a handful of EPs. Her most recent LP, 2020’s Motherhood, which featured Tara McLeod of the prominent early ‘oughts nu metal band Kittie, was perhaps the most critically-acclaimed of No Joy’s career, receiving an 8.0 from Pitchfork who described it as “a shoegaze album with a rare scope and an even rarer sense of fun and imagination.”
Today, No Joy is back with another re-invention and another unexpected collaborator, as she announces her follow up to her 2020 LP. Produced with the much buzzed about Chicago experimental artist Fire-Toolz, No Joy’s latest album is entitled Bugland and will be released on Hand Drawn Dracula (CAN/US/ROW) and Sonic Cathedral (EU/UK) on August 8th. To mark the announce No Joy is sharing the album’s titled track “Bugland.”
“The collaboration really felt limitless,” says Fire-Toolz (aka Angel Marcloid). “I didn’t have to adhere to a certain vision in a way that made me feel like I couldn’t be Fire-Toolz. I could easily relate to this album because Jasamine and I liked a lot of the same music, and I was able to be creative in ways that were freeing as if I was making my own album.”
The album’s title track was also the genesis of their collaboration, and neatly encapsulates the way their styles have melded. Some of the heavy elements of Motherhood remain, but are tempered by a tapestry of glitchy electronics that make up the track’s constantly shifting arrangement.
“This was the first song Fire-Toolz & No Joy produced together, initially without any plan to ever release it. Our production styles melded so well together on this track that we decided we should make a whole album. The song came together super organically, from the Korn-esque bass lines to the earworm vocal, it’s the welcome sign of the album letting you know you’ve officially entered our world.” – White-Gluz
“The 37 Most Anticipated Albums of Summer 2025” – PITCHFORK
“This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist” – Pitchfork Selects / PITCHFORK
“Bug Girl Summer is upon us.” – The 5 Best Songs Of The Week / STEREOGUM
“It recalls the best moments in shoegaze-gone-baggy of the early ’90s, Madchester beats infiltrating a mesmerizing bed of sound” – Essential Tracks This Week / TREBLEZINE
“Week’s Best New Canadian Music” – The Eh! List / EXCLAIM!
“an inspired match made in weirdo shoegaze dance music heaven” – Best Songs and Albums of May 2025 / BROOKLYN VEGAN
“Our Favorite Songs of the Week” – BROOKLYN VEGAN
“No Joy announces Fire-Toolz-produced album, Bugland” – TREBLEZINE
“After 5 Years, the Montreal Band Releases a New Album” – INDIEFORBUNNIES
“No Joy annonce son prochain album BUGLAND” – LE CANAL AUDITIF
“une pièce qui est également part rock aérien et guitare bruyante. Du délice” – The most notable songs of May 2025 / LE CANAL AUDITIF
“La metamorfosis sonora de No Joy arranca con BUGLAND” – MINDIES
“occupying the space where dream-pop morphs into hyperpop and vice versa” – STUBERMANIA
“The shoegaze project helmed by Montreal mastermind Jasamine White-Gluz, have announced their forthcoming new album” – EXCLAIM!
“Jasamine White-Gluz’s beloved project is back” – STEREOGUM
“No Joy announce new Fire-Toolz produced album BUGLAND” – BROOKLYN VEGAN
“No Joy teams with Fire-Toolz for new album BUGLAND” – THE NEEDLE DROP
“No Joy Announces New Album BUGLAND” – PITCHFORK
Bugland out August 8th
Standard Edition pressed on Chrysalis Blue Vinyl
Limited Edition of 100 Laurel Green Larvae Vinyl (Exclusive to Hand Drawn Dracula Bandcamp and the Levitation Store)
PRE-ORDER: VARIOUS / LEVITATION / BANDCAMP
Sep 06: Elizabethtown NY @ Otis Mountain Getdown Festival
Sep 26: Montreal @ Toscadura – Pop Montreal Festival
Oct 15: Manchester @ YES Basement
Oct 17: London @ Moth Club
Oct 18: Chelmsford @ Hot Box
Oct 19: Coventry @ Just Dropped In
Oct 20: Glasgow @ Glad Cafe
Oct 21: Leeds @ Headrow House
Oct 23: Rotterdam @ Left of the Dial Festival
Oct 24: Rotterdam @ Left of the Dial Festival
Oct 25: Paris @ Supersonic
Oct 28: Berlin @ 8mm
Nov 6-9: Seattle @ Freakout Festival
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