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Bugland

by No Joy

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1.
It was a Sunday We stripped a tree It was always about me We’re getting too close together We’re getting too close Erased the laughs all off from your face And I'm wondering how I look to you now Litters overgrown Is always overcome And again modified winged plum Do you feel Cherrystones In her bones It’s okay to sleep again Do you feel Cherrystones In her bones
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Bugland 02:29 video
you're in bugland earth gold plant turn it out and fly fly moths welcome what you see is home and its mine mine mine youre in bugland leave you suntanned you look better with eyes eyes eyes everywhere that we go im outside with lily eyes we set the fire clams in the sky
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Bits 03:38 video
Grey as a classic Break my heart out Forest Litter Its you Grey as a classic Born just a little bit Waving to you Mouse Music Grievance Collector I walk around the back And you’re all around me You’re all around Itd be nicer When’d we get so old I still want you I know I want you Want you And it was Forest Litter Its you (spoken word: We set aside the sadness The trees were whispering things to us.I could hear it.It said something of hope. I look like this here but I can’t see. Blindness covers her but violence has her tendency)
4.
Molt the way down inside All the way to follow All the way out Hand pick gills the petals Bather in the bloodcells Are there ways to follow All the way Out Waterproof skin Its okay to go to sleep again Somebody loves you Somebody who Somebody loves Now run Now run Now run Put it on the right tide
5.
Garbage Dream house I had to find you Sun in your mouth I had to find you We’re drenched by a milky hum You’re a visit on a plant In Soul In Time And you write your notes You rally your words Do you like me the most again In Soul In Time Sunlight It makes sugar And I'm waiting I am waiting Garbage Dream house I had to find you Sun in your mouth I had to find you
6.
I felt alive In a house In a house Ill die in, baby He was the light (He was) It was the light
7.
Hate all the times in the morning Crave all the ants in the sky A rose grew out of your finger Sun patiently says goodbye Listen closely You Have a place Like a sad song That always comes on Im ready Hate I forget what you look like Your face is a window inside Listen closely Im ready I patiently say goodbye Im ready
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Let me record your arc Always I’ll layout the bog where hearts Stay if you find this memory Repeat play I’m the smallest detail your way I had it all along Jelly Meadow spherical is never deaf blizzard orb is life root, 3, 4 a moon in morn is light jelly meadow bright

about

Clearly sympatico at the time of collaborating, Fire-Toolz and No Joy (Jasamine White-Gluz) had both resituated to secluded woodsy milieus prior to the “Bugland seshies”, as I now name the historic pairing. Together, they created an aural equivalent of a late 1980 I-d magazine front and back cover, with a non-problematic National Geographic hiding within. Fire-Toolz sums it up: “The collaboration really felt limitless. I didn't have to adhere to a certain vision in a way that made me feel like I couldn't be Fire-Toolz. I could easily relate to this album because Jasamine and I liked a lot of the same music, and I was able to be creative in ways that were freeing as if I was making my own album. “


Both spent days driving through on empty rural highways listening to the mixes, and it reflects in the final product. With an open ear, many “influence eggs” can be detected by the listener. Garbage Dream House is Zooropian without any of U2’s ego baggage. Seven-minute closing track Jelly Meadow Bright even manages to meld Stooges’ Fun House out of control saxophone with the chill buoyancy of a high-end spa. 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.

credits

released August 8, 2025

All songs Co-Produced by No Joy & Fire-Toolz
Mixed by Angel Marcloid, Angel Hair Audio
Mastered by Heba Kadry, NYC


Artwork photographed by Mathieu Fortin
Packaging by Jeremy Dabrowski


UK / EU via Sonic Cathedral
ROW via Hand Drawn Dracula

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No Joy Montreal, Québec

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. ... more

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