No Joy has announced a new EP, Big Life, Big Leaf, a companion EP to last year’s Bugland. Jasamine White-Gluz worked on it with the album’s producer Angel Marcloid, aka Fire-Toolz, and it lands August 21 via Hand Drawn Dracula. The effervescent title track was co-written with longtime collaborator Jorge Elbrecht. Check it out below.
“This was a demo I had that we never got around to during the Bugland sessions,” White-Gluz explained in a statement. “In 2024 I brought it to Jorge Elbrecht (Japanese Breakfast, Sky Ferreira), who I have a long history of writing with. We really love exploring the absurd, combining musical ideas that shouldn’t really make sense together – it felt great picking up where we left off after 2020’s Motherhood LP. Bringing the song back around to Angel Marcloid (Fire-Toolz) more recently (post-Bugland LP sessions) made perfect sense to me; both Angel and Jorge have insane musicality and melodic imagination. Angel is a brilliant pop producer, she has a knack for shaping where a song can take you emotionally. Tara McLeod (Kittie) rips on guitar as usual, continuing to bring this heavy-but-effervescent energy.
“Lyrically, I wrote and recorded these vocals in one take during an emotional time this past spring,” White-Gluz added. “I was exploring the boundless pain one feels when it is time to say goodbye to someone or something. It is also during those moments that it is important to remember, ironically, to have joy. To mourn is also to celebrate.”
Big Life, Big Leaf EP Cover Artwork:
Big Life, Big Leaf EP Tracklist:
1. Barking at the Sun
2. Big Life, Big Leaf
3. Süki & Amadeus
