No Joy More Faithful

Received a 7.1 rating from Pitchfork.

More Faithful is No Joy's third full-length for Mexican Summer. Throughout the album, singer / guitarist Jasamine White-gluz, guitarist Laura Lloyd, drummer Garland Hastings and bassist Michael Farsky (formerly of Dirty Beaches' live band) push themselves to new peaks of intensity. Working with musician and producer Jorge Elbrecht (Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Chairlift, Lansing-Dreiden), the band embraced a much more rigorous creative process. The outcome—a juxtaposition of unrest and calm, beauty and chaos, truth and fantasy, in the throes of maxed-out amps and hair-whipping guitar goddess rock music—is as unwavering as ever. At times heavier than anything they’ve done yet, while also their fastest—riffs shooting upward in discord and drifting down in angelic harmonies, More Faithful is the most forward, throttling record No Joy has made, taking their sound to the wall in a brazen display of beauty-laced power.