{"id":5149,"date":"2016-07-13T11:20:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T11:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-no-joy-drool-sucker-ep\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T22:16:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T22:16:03","slug":"album-review-no-joy-drool-sucker-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-no-joy-drool-sucker-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: No Joy – Drool Sucker EP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You\u2019d have to be bleaker than a black hole to live up to a name as cataclysmically futile as No Joy<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Yet while the Montreal quartet never reach such heights (or depths), there is a crushing, end-of-the-world dreariness about their post-rock\/shoegaze noise. That\u2019s not to say \u2018Drool Sucker\u2019<\/i> is joyless; in fact the band\u2019s press release alludes to them playing “shimmery infectious dream pop”<\/i>, which, when the rolling drums and doom-laden introduction to \u2018A Thorn in Garland\u2019s Side\u2019<\/i> kicks in, makes such claims sound like the punchline to a bad joke. Instead, \u2018Drool Sucker\u2019<\/i> is the sound of a band not giving a fuck about convention, toying with expectations and delivering an EP so raw and honest it simply demands your attention. <\/p>\n

Drool Sucker by No Joy<\/a><\/p>\n

Only three songs long and the first EP in a series, for all the dismal imagery alluded to above \u2018Drool Sucker\u2019<\/i> is remarkably accessible, offering a short, sharp stab of progressive, engaging and innovative shoegaze. That said, \u2018Drool Sucker\u2019<\/i> is not after easy wins \u2013 and you wouldn\u2019t call your band No Joy<\/b> if you were offering everything up on a plate. Instead, there\u2019s an artistry to \u2018XO (Adam\u2019s Getting Married)\u2019 <\/i> and \u2018Theme Song\u2019<\/i> that elevates proceedings to Sonic Youth levels of brooding alt-rock dissonance.<\/p>\n

Cerebral and melodious, imaginative and powerful, there\u2019s some deft hands and smart minds behind the apocalyptic sounds of No Joy<\/b>. No-one said The Rapture would be beautiful, but No Joy<\/b> have conjured up a fitting soundtrack to the End of Days.<\/p>\n

4\/5<\/p>\n

\u2019Drool Sucker’<\/em> EP by No Joy<\/strong> is released on 15th July on Topshelf Records<\/b>.<\/p>\n

No Joy<\/strong> links: Facebook<\/a>|Bandcamp<\/a>|Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Rob Mair (@BobNightMair<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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