Last month, No Joy announced a new EP entitled Big Life, Big Leaf (out August 21st via Hand Drawn Dracula). The EP is the follow up to the widely beloved 5th LP from Jasamine White-Gluz long-running project, 2025’s Bugland, which like the new EP was co-produced by the heralded Chicago experimental artist Fire-Toolz. That album earned a Best New Music designation from Pitchfork, who called it “a perfect album for our current shoecraze…Bugland is full of more textures, more ambiance, more chunky ’90s guitar. It crushes like a giant box of Gushers,” with further praise coming fromBandcamp, FADER, Stereogum, BrooklynVegan, AV Club, Hearing Things, FLOOD, and Exclaim. and wasalso recently nominated for the Polaris Prize.
The new EP was announced with its title track, which was co-written with Japanese Breakfast and Sky Ferreira producer Jorge Elbrecht. Today, No Joy are sharing a second single from the EP called “Barking At The Sun.” that blends dreamy shoegaze with ferocious blast beats and scratching from DJ Diego Juarez..
White-Gluz says of the track:
This song is driving through empty corn fields with the windows down on the first warm days of spring. During the last solar eclipse, I drove my car to the fields and watched the sun disappear and reappear, feeling like it was both the beginning and the end of the world.
This was the first song Angel & I worked on after Bugland. The song grew out of a very old demo where I played around with Drop C guitar tunings. With this opening guitar riff, I collaged bits and pieces of other demos together to make a patchwork of a song. Angel then took that into her world and made it more technicolor.
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