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  • Summary: The latest full-length release from Jasamine White-Gluz's music project No Joy features a guest appearance by Fire-Toolz (who also co-produced).
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
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  1. Aug 13, 2025
    90
    It's a marvel of design and execution that registers mostly as activated, unrelenting noise pop and invites listeners to discover something new and joyfully befuddling every time they listen back.
  2. Aug 13, 2025
    83
    Taking in Bugland’s spree of bright colors and surprise twists can feel like breaking a piñata onto the crazy-pattern carpet in the laser-tag arena: There is so much happening, and nearly all of it commands your attention.
  3. Aug 13, 2025
    80
    At times, it feels as if Marcloid has somehow found a way to give her DAW a nervous system. This, combined with White-Gluz’ organic melodic impulses, makes for a pop album that is both strikingly deft and consciously playful.
  4. Uncut
    Aug 13, 2025
    70
    Album opener "Garbage Dream House" is a scene-setter - somehow both ominous and joyful with its grinding, melodic riff, robotic bleeps and orchestral outro. [Sep 2025, p.37]