No Joy makes intricate, maximalist pop that obscures its genre-obliterating tendencies with a thin shoegaze disguise. The road to Bugland, No Joy’s fifth full-length album, was a long journey with swift, significant changes along the way. The project operated as a somewhat standard textural noise rock band for years before becoming the solo vehicle of producer, songwriter, and creative polymath Jasamine White-Gluz.
2020’s Motherhood drove home just how different No Joy was when acting as a refractive lens for White-Gluz’s artistic imagination, with a set of dense and ambitious songs that leaned on the influence of the Deftones on moment, No Doubt the next, and switched gears from trip hop informed grooves to nu metal aggression…
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