No Pleasure: Bugland
LP | DL | ST
Launched: 8th August, 2025
On album quantity 5, No Pleasure take us on a wild experience by way of Bugland, creating compositions as intricate as nature itself.
No Pleasure, the Canadian indie-shoe gaze act, began out as a 3 piece band however has since develop into the solo undertaking of Jasamine White-Gluz. Although on Bugland, the fifth album launched beneath the No Pleasure title, White-Gluz works carefully with Chicago experimental artist Hearth-Toolz, who produced the album. Hearth-Toolz stated: “The collaboration actually felt limitless. I didn’t have to stick to a sure imaginative and prescient in a method that made me really feel like I couldn’t be Hearth-Toolz. I might simply relate to this album as a result of Jasamine and I preferred quite a lot of the identical music, and I used to be capable of be inventive in ways in which have been releasing as if I used to be making my very own album.”
Bugs would possibly make some folks run for metropolis life, however White-Glutz has been communing with nature since transferring out to the nation and has taken day out from the conveyor belt of album/tour/promote repeat. She says, “…rural dwelling made me tune out the noise of the music biz and focus extra inwards writing and taking my rattling time. Additionally spending time doing issues I didn’t have time to do after I was touring so much – like studying about birds or wild swimming. I by no means wish to put any music out that I’m not absolutely dedicated to.”
It’s a kaleidoscopic album, with every track virtually a symphony in its personal proper; the music swirling by way of tempo adjustments and devices cascading by way of the cover of the rhythmic foliage, and the vocals drifting, seeping into the thoughts of the listener. It’s to the credit score of each author and producer that every one these parts are managed and the mash up of musical types by no means turns into dissonant; it’s all the time completely collectively and cohesive.
Opening observe Rubbish Dream Home begins with the sound of static, because the listener re-tunes their senses to the pure world, The drum beat begins, a wake-up name, with eerie sounds overlapping as if the forest is coming to life. The vocals are dreamy and plush, luring you right into a crashing wall of sound earlier than it resolves into dreamy pop. It units the tone for what’s going to come: the vocals low within the combine and sometimes used extra as an instrument than to precise lyrics.
The title observe is disco with heavy guitar, making a sound akin to squirming, exploding lava. There’s a jerky really feel to the intricate and layered sounds, just like the sound of bugs in frenzied movement. There’s small undercurrent of B-52s to it. An industrial really feel ushers to start with of Bits, however the vocals come hovering in and lead us right into a extra exultant sound which then morphs into acoustic guitar and a extra dream-pop really feel. Save The Lobsters has a cool drum beat and really cool bass line which once more utterly adjustments close to the top of the track with layers of devices and sounds overlapping right into a wall of sound. There’s a poppy, shoe-gaze really feel to My Crud Princess and massive rock chords propel Bather In The Bloodcells which is drenched in cool beats. I Hate That I Overlook What You Look Like is a dreamy quantity with the vocals bathing you in lush sounds.
The album closes with Jelly Meadow Brilliant, the longest track at slightly below 8 minutes. It opens with a piano and digital sounds. The incoherent vocals swoon and there’s a backing refrain of celestial beings. About half method by way of the drums fade out and there’s a change of rhythm. Enter jangling keyboards after which heavy discordant sounds and vocals screaming within the background. The track, and the album, fades out, as twilight settles over Bugland. It’s been a wild experience.
Bugland is an album that performs just like the day within the lifetime of chaotic, lovely nature. It’s an all-enveloping music that swarms over you and embraces you in a cocoon of mesmerising swirling types. Activate, tune in, sit back with the bugs.
No Pleasure can be touring the UK in October:
10/15 – Manchester @ YES Basement
10/17 – London @ Moth Membership
10/18 – Chelmsford @ Scorching Field
10/19 – Coventry @ Simply Dropped In
10/20 – Glasgow @ Glad Cafe
10/21 – Leeds @ Headrow Home
10/23/24 – Rotterdam @ Left of the Dial Pageant
10/25: Paris @ Supersonic
10/28: Berlin @ 8mm
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You’ll find No Pleasure on Instagram and Bandcamp.
All phrases by Mark Ray. Extra writing by Mark Ray may be discovered at his creator archive. And he may be discovered on Instagram.
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