Crunch Tapes & 8MM Bar present:

• NO JOY (Montreal / Sonic Cathedral)

Since first arriving on the scene in 2009 with blistering inversions of shoegaze, Montreal’s No Joy has always found formidable ways to reinvent itself. Now solely composed of musician Jasamine White-Gluz, No Joy has evolved over four studio albums and five EPs, defying expectation and genre, and cementing itself as something rare: a band without a category. Over the years, No Joy has conjured an effortless mix of sound, achieving new heights in the more traditional confines of the shoegaze genre, while veering into heavy metal and even EDM.

Following the two recent sister releases, No Joy was invited to perform at festivals like Levitation (with Boy Harsher & Drab Majesty), Desert Daze, and notably to acclaimed performing arts festival FME in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, where White-Gluz presented the full string arrangements live. No Joy also headlined in the US/Canada and supported artists like DIIV, Nothing, and Preoccupations.

No Joy’s forthcoming 2025 album, Bugland, brought in collaborator Fire-Toolz as a co-producer. Touching on respected, familiar genres and sounds while attempting to advance one’s own isn’t easy, but Bugland manages to. What genre is it anyway? Is it even shoegaze when it could live happily on a shelf next to Boards of Canada and Autechre? The right answer is ‘yes’. What a lovely shelf ‘twould be as well. A marble shelf, with cyberpunk elements. Bugland‘s a testament to White-Gluz’s evolution and her ability to channel a wide variety of tastes into something cohesive that can descend into fine-tuned chaos, then out of that chaos with ease.

🗓️ Tuesday, October 28th
🕖 Doors: 19:00 | Show: 20:45
📍 8MM Bar (Schönhauser Allee 177b, 10119 Berlin)
🎟️ TICKETS available via Resident Advisor