Creep

After Drool Sucker on Topshelf in June 2016, No Joy kept to short releases, and Creep followed on 24 February 2017 as the first record on the new Grey Market label, a 12-inch at 45 rpm numbered GM002 with a first edition of 290 copies on opaque aqua blue vinyl. Jorge Elbrecht, who had produced Wait to Pleasure, produced, played on and mixed it at Hotel2Tango with Tyler Fitzmaurice engineering; Heba Kadry mastered it and Max Hooper Schneider made the artwork. Jasamine White-Gluz leads, with Garland Hastings on drums and Michael Farsky on bass credited by one reviewer, while the premiere pieces described the band as a duo of White-Gluz and Laura Lloyd.

Exclaim! wrote that it "shows No Joy once again extending their sonic range and defying genre expectations", Somewhere Cold called it "a standout EP", and Slug found it good but probably not among the band's best. Stereogum heard Elbrecht in the "shimmering synthy textures and disorienting studio effects" of "Hellhole".