Just Shows presents

NO JOY

Montreal shoegaze noise rock

Mexican Summer Records

http://nojoymusic.com

with guests TBA

9PM $12 advance tickets at Rotate This, Soundscapes & Ticketfly.ca

Direct link: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/606565

Friday July 4, 2014

Smiling Buddha

961 College St.

No Joy still sounds like a shoegaze band, but on Wait To Pleasure you can hear whats happening under the surface, a work that subverts the expectations of where a latter-day approach to that genre might be able to take the listener. We get a lot of the obvious comparisons, Laura says about the bands music, favorably likened to the stormier side of the pond, where bands like Lush and Swervedriver used to reside, as well as the templates for that sound in groups like Hsker D.

Those of you with well-trained ears can play spot-the-influence, but the record remains well within the precedent set by No Joys releases. Lunar Phobia finds Jasamines ethereal vocal harmonies prismatically split in the studio environment, with syncopated and chopped-up rhythms last heard in Alan Moulders work with groups of yore like Curve, a seamless blend of digital tricks and analog guitar crunch. Better to drill into your skull before you realize whats happening better to let all of their sometimes-stinging, sometimes-syrupy music into that new hole in your head.

We play as if the audience isnt there, and we wouldnt care if there werent anyone in the room at all, other than our band, Jasamine qualifies. No matter what, we are making this music for ourselves. Feel fortunate, then, that we are invited along to listen in, to take what we want out of No Joys songs. Theyve gotten everything they wanted already.