No Joy began as a doomily dreamy shoegaze duo and slowly morphed into something far more experimental and uncontainable. The production on dark, guitar-heavy albums released throughout the 2010s got progressively more adventurous and led to the genre-defying stylistic mishmash of 2020's Motherhood and its 2021 companion EP Can My Daughter See Me from Heaven.
No Joy formed in November 2009 when guitarist/vocalist Jasamine White-Gluz was living in Los Angeles and guitarist/vocalist Laura Lloyd was living in Montreal. The pair wrote songs as long-distance collaborators until Whi...