We can't really offer you any dirt on No Joy. They won't give us any. They won't give you any either, at least not anything you can use. They've been asked the same questions one too many times. "What are your influences?" "What's it like being a woman in rock music?" You're not gonna get much out of them outside of their music, which has been exclusively in the domain of Mexican Summer since their debut 7".Check the record covers - no information, no photos, no inserts. Of course their music does not exist in a void, but it stands to reason that if you're going to put something out there, you'd best back it up. If you've seen No Joy perform, you know that this is not their problem. Wait To Pleasure may not provide you with any new answers, but what it does provide is a batch of incredible new songs, the product of the Montreal noisepop band's first foray in a fully-furnished studio environment. Here the band has flourished, delivering their finest set to date, rooted heavily in shoegaze ripcurls and devastating melody, finishing sentences whispered long ago with depth, variance and force. Singer-guitarists Jasamine White-Gluz and Laura Lloyd and drummer Garland Hastings knock down the fence between nostalgia and modernity, chaos and control, in a perfectly-realized effort made to bridge their uncompromised musical pasts with the alarmist tendencies of the present. "Über das kanadische Frauenduo No Joy ist recht wenig bekannt. Sicher ist, dass sich die Künstlerinnen weder in eine Schublade stecken lassen und noch eine harmlose Girls Band sind. Mit ihrem geballten, fast aggressiven Sound heben sie sich vom Stil ihrer (durchaus befreundeten) Kolleginnen Best Coast, Puro Instincto oder auch Vivian und Dum Dum Girls ab. Ihre Musik enthält Shoegazing-Elemente, aber in einer atypisch düsteren, ja bedrohlichen Ausprägung. Hinter den schwelgerischen Soundkaskaden scheint häufig eine melancholische, bitter-süße Popmelancholie auf - gut verpackt in einer kompromisslosen Krachmaschinerie." (arte)