Califone
The opener and first single from Creep, with a collage video by Ben Clarkson that NPR premiered in January 2017.
No Joy, from Creep (2017)
It opens the Creep EP at 3:26 and was its first single, recorded at Hotel2Tango with Jorge Elbrecht producing; the writing credits were not verified. NPR premiered the video on 24 January 2017, directed by Ben Clarkson, and described it as "a curious collage of computer-generated and green-screen images": a San Francisco Giants coffin on a Tron-like grid, guitars dropped like bombs from a fighter jet and the singer's floating head beside Left Shark. NPR heard her "floating above No Joy's most intricate guitar melodies as restless drums burst apart tufts of clouds", closer to Pinkshinyultrablast's dream pop than to More Faithful; CLRVYNT saw two "space cadets floating through a Spiritualized-inspired haze", and Slug was reminded of "Lush-style, very-'90s shoegaze". No statement from the band about the title or lyric was found, and no chart entry, cover or sample is recorded. Our upload is the official video on Grey Market's channel.
More songs by No Joy
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Sources
- Ladies and gentlemen, No Joy's "Califone" is floating in space, NPR (2017-01-24)
- No Joy, "Califone" video, CLRVYNT (2017-01-24)
- No Joy, Creep, Slug
- Creep, release group, MusicBrainz