No Joy‘s upcoming LP More Faithful comes out June 9th on Mexican Summer. Like on their 2013 LP Wait To Pleasure, the band has chosen to work with the musician/producer Jorge Elbrecht (Ariel Pinks Haunted Graffiti, Chairlift, Lansing- Dreiden, Violens). While some of the tracking for the record was done at Gary’s Electric in Brooklyn, it seems a good portion of the work was accomplished at a makeshift studio set up in an old farmhouse in Costa Rica. This seems to lend a cut like “Moon In My Mouth” a somewhat warmer disposition than the more glowering lean of Wait To Pleasure. Exquisitely layered vocals and a tropically breezy melody shine thru this track, as guitarists Jasamine White-Gluz and Laura Lloyd amicably lock hands in a four-note melody, while the rhythm section of drummer Garland Hastings and bassist Michael Farsky unwind an odd 11/4 time signature that skips a beat thru each verse. Call it math gaze.
No Joy kicks off a string of live dates this coming May. Here they are…
5/10/15 Birmingham, UK The Hare & Hound *
5/11/15 London, UK Oslo *
5/13/15 Leeds, UK Brudenell Social Club *
5/14/15 York, UK The Fulford Arms *
5/15/15 Brighton, UK Brighthelm Centre (The Great Escape)
5/16/15 Bristol, UK The Louisiana *
5/20/15 Brighton, UK Prince Albert *
5/22/15 Amsterdam, NL De Nieuwe Anita
06/04/15 Montreal, QB Bar Le Ritz PDB
06/05/15 Ottawa, ON House of Targ
06/07/15 Cleveland, OH Happy Dog
6/08/15 Chicago, IL Schubas Tavern
6/10/15 Seattle, WA Sunset Tavern
6/11/15 Biltmore Cabaret Vancouver, BC
6/12/15 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
6/14/15 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill
06/16/15 Los Angeles, CA Los Globos
06/17/15 Toronto, ON NXNE Music & Arts Conference
6/23/15 Brooklyn, NY Baby’s All Right
06/24/15 Philadelphia, PA Kung Fu Necktie
06/25/15 Washington, DC DC9
06/26/15 Cambridge, MA Middle East Downstairs
*w/ Cheatahs
