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listen to "Slorb" from No Joy & Sonic Boom's collaborative EP

No Joy and Sonic Boom‘s collaborative EP is out March 30 via Joyful Noise. (Pre-order.) It’s a dream(pop) collaboration in that No Joy’s shoegazy style melds so well with the former Spacemen 3 member’s trancey electronic style. A real natural fit. We’ve got the premiere of the EP’s majorly chilled-out, ethereal “Slorb.” No Joy’s Jasamine White-Glutz told us how the song came together:

The song was influenced by ’90s trip hop such as Sneaker Pimps and was written mostly in laptop while on tour in Europe in 2016. Influences include: not sleeping because you are on a long tour and the drives are crazy, using your voice as a main instrument instead of relying on volume or guitars, and that weird time of year when its almost spring but in Montreal you never know if it might snow again.

Hear what you want to hear and listen below.

No Joy will be on tour with Baths beginning later this month, playing Brooklyn’s Elsewhere Hall on April 19 with Sasami Ashworth also on the bill (tickets).

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No Joy – 2018 Tour Dates
3/28 Eugene, OR WOW Hall
3/29 Portland, OR Holocene
3/30 Vancouver, BC Fortune Sound Club
3/31 Seattle, WA Neumos
4/2 Spokane, WA The Bartlett
4/3 Boise, ID The Reef
4/4 Salt Lake City, UT Metro Bar
4/5 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater
4/6 Kansas City, MO The Record Bar
4/7 Minneapolis, MN Fine Line Mic Cafe
4/8 Davenport, IA Daytrotter Venue
4/10 Madison, WI Majestic Theatre
4/11 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall
4/12 Grand Rapids, MI The Pyramid Scheme
4/13 Toronto, ON Horseshoe Tavern
4/14 Montreal, QC Theatre Fairmount
4/17 South Burlington, VT Higher Ground Ballroom
4/18 Cambridge, MA The Sinclair
4/19 Brooklyn, NY Elsewhere
4/20 Philadelphia, PA The Foundry at the Fillmore
4/21 Washington, DC U Street Music Hall
4/22 Charlotte, NC Snug Harbor
4/24 Atlanta, GA Terminal West
4/26 Houston, TX White Oak Music Hall (Upstairs)
4/27 Dallas, TX Club Dada
4/28 Austin, TX The Sidewinder
5/1 Tucson, AZ Hotel Congress
5/2 Phoenix, AZ The Crescent Ballroom
5/3 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up
5/4 Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theatre
5/5 San Francisco, CA The Independent