On November 24 Montreal s No Joy played The Garrison in Toronto, Ontario. Cedric Noel opened the show. No Joy released their EP Can My Daughter See Me From Heaven earlier this year and their album Motherhood in 2020. Our photographer Stephen McGill was there to catch all of the action. Check out his.
Motherhood. The new album signaled the first time
Jasamine White-Gluz helmed the project as a solo artist, following the departure of founding member Laura Lloyd.
Due to COVID-19, No Joy was unable to tour extensively in support of
Motherhood. As a result, White-Gluz sees
Can My Daughter See Me From Heaven as an opportunity to build on the previous record.
“Songs take on a new life when I’m on tour,” White-Gluz says. “These songs didn’t get that chance. I still had more to say with them. I probably never would’ve been like ‘let’s get a bunch of classically trained players together’ if it wasn’t for COVID-19. [This EP] was an opportunity to do something that wasn’t obvious. It’s a bedroom recording, but it doesn’t sound like we recorded this in our bedrooms. I wanted to do something that sounded bigger than
No Joy Shares Cover of Deftones Teenager
The video for the previously released single Kidder (From Heaven) was created from the perspective 7-year-old director Sloan.by TV News Desk
No Joy, the genre-defying project of Jasamine White-Gluz, has shared a video for their cover of Deftones Teenager (From Heaven) from their upcoming EP, Can My Daughter See Me From Heaven. I have never been shy about my love for Deftones, says White-Gluz. White Pony is one of my favorite records of all time and the track Teenager was proof to me that they were a band bigger than any nu-metal confines they were trapped in. It s such a sensitive and delicate song sequenced right in the center of a very heavy album. We recorded our version completely remotely. Nailah s harp, Tara s lapsteel, and Ouri s experimental cello really capture the emotional feeling I had when I first heard the song as a teenager.