It's been awhile since I've posted about No Joy, but these Montreal girls have not been resting on their laurels. They just put out their debut album Ghost Blonde on Mexican Summer, and it is a true show of how they've expanded on their potential. For instance the track "Hawaii" is a blistering tart noise pop tune, combining their love of shoegaze and Sonic Youth into an ethereal mix that still containers the tint of beauty that lays in all their music. The video manages to portray the darkened beauty of the track, it a very abstract way that all music videos seem to do these.
(mp3) No Joy-Hawaii
While we're on the subject of No Joy and their new album, a it should be noted that the band also dropped the equally as great "Headless" as well from that album. It's more on the dream-pop/shoegaze side of the band taking a page out of Lush's playbook, but if you shoved the vocals through a distorter. However, this is not at all a bad thing, and "Headless" may be the closest the band has come to making a straight (yet nosiy) indie pop song.
(mp3) No Joy-Headless
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
Video: No Joy-Hawaii
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I've had a No Joy sitting in my drafts for about a month now! These ladies totally shred. They were awesome at the Mexican Summer CMJ showcase!
ReplyDeleteI'm not surprised at all. Pity they're from Canada, otherwise they would tour more. Fingers crossed they come to SXSW.
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