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.