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December 31st, 2015 4:06pm

Darker Every Time We Try


No Joy “Burial In Twos”

One of the best things about No Joy’s extraordinary and sadly underrated More Faithful is the way the band implies a sense of depth in their music. They exaggerate dynamics to the point where the music will have this 3-D movie effect, with sounds seeming to surge out from the speakers. The loud, heavy guitar parts on most shoegaze records come off fairly flat, with most of the dynamic sacrificed as the tone is pushed into the red, but in a song like “Burial in Twos,” that sound has a dimension to it that suggests a far greater scale. But the vocals that go with it are very delicate and intimate, so the contrast implies something even more resonant – a huge burning emotion that’s building up inside you that feels like it’s going to rip you apart, but you can’t let it out. You get a similar effect on a lot of the greatest My Bloody Valentine songs, but I think while that band is about being lost in sensuous feeling and transcendental lust, No Joy is more about the cathartic release of repressed desires. It’s like some silent war in a shy person’s mind.

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