{"id":8209,"date":"2015-08-14T05:45:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T09:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=8209"},"modified":"2015-08-14T05:45:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T09:45:09","slug":"album-mini-review-no-joy-more-faithful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/14\/album-mini-review-no-joy-more-faithful\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: No Joy &#8212; More Faithful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/no_joy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/center>File Next to: <strong>My Bloody Valentine<\/strong>, <strong>Best Coast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B00V8YMNES&amp;asins=B00V8YMNES&amp;linkId=44VGAVHPJBIS5QVO&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a curious quality to some of the best shoegaze: the dual feeling of moving both at breakneck speed and at a glacial pace. The music on <em>More Faithful<\/em>, No Joy&#8217;s third long player, is a case in point. From the opening notes of kickoff track \u201cRemember Nothing,\u201d the band is full-on, steamrolling ahead in a manner recalling <strong>H\u00fcsker D\u00fc<\/strong>. And simultaneously, they&#8217;re creating a gauzy, head-nodding, somnambulant ambience. And that sharp contrast works. When they dial things down &#8212; that is to say, when they lean more in the dreamy direction \u2013 the melody in their concise songs reveals itself more overtly. Sweet vocal harmonies float atop hypnotically repeated chords. No Joy&#8217;s overall sound suggests <strong>Best Coast<\/strong> with a wider sonic palette. <em>More Faithful<\/em> is sequenced so that the pummeling tunes alternate with the subtler ones; the effect is alluring and creates a nice bit of musical tension.<\/p>\n<p><em>An edited version of this review previously appeared in the<\/em> Colorado Springs Independent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" name=\"graphics3\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" align=\"BOTTOM\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\"> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File Next to: My Bloody Valentine, Best Coast There&#8217;s a curious quality to some of the best shoegaze: the dual feeling of moving both at breakneck speed and at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65,67],"tags":[1598],"class_list":["post-8209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","category-shoegaze","tag-no-joy","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","cat-67-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}