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Album art: Bugland by Mi Joy
This album art confirms that ladybugs are just adorable beetles but beetles nonetheless. Good song, btw.
26.01.2026 02:01 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Actually, @nojoy.bsky.social, I get a LOT of joy from your music, and #GarbageDreamHouse isn't garbage at all, but actually the #52 best song of the year. You really need to work on your self confidence
#LegitBosses2025
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Stay warm
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My Favorite Albums of 2025 Brian Dunne, Clams Casino — Perfect melody and lyric after perfect melody and lyric. Almost surgical. Okonski, October — Put this on, close your eyes and get lost in bittersweet reverie. Dax Riggs, Seven Songs for Spiders — A haunted musical graveyard (in the best way!) Preoccupations, Ill at Ease — Scratches that College Rock/Darkwave itch that never truly goes away. No Joy, Bugland — The best sounding album of 2025. Pure audio fruit salad! Denison Witmer, Anything At All — At once understated and over the top, like a robin’s egg painted with all the colors of the rainbow
Viagra Boys, Viagr Aboys — So smart it’s dumb, or so dumb it’s smart? The year’s most quotable album. Cusp, What I Want Doesn’t Want Me Back — This feels like the album immediately before the masterpiece. Mark my words! Motrik, Earth — Perfect for speeding down the German highway in your mind. Jeff Tweedy, Twilight Override — This fucker is making us all look bad. Stop being so prolific, Jeff! ROSALíA, LUX — An album I admire more than love, but I sure as fuck admire it. Silvana Estrada, Vendrán — A vocal magician, with melodic smarts to match. Hammerhedd, Shivers — Just wrote about these relative tykes last week. Controlled aggression and a willingness to experiment
Car Seat Headrest, The Scholars — The biggest of big swings. Overstuffed, but laudable. Will Paquin, Hahaha — There are five genuinely great songs on this. What more can you ask for? Rumer, In Session — For existing within your own internal coffee shop. Cory Hanson, I Love People — “Comforting” and “snarky” don’t usually go together, at least not this seemlessly. Erika de Casier, Lifetime — More artists should aspire to being Sade. The world would be a better place. Melody’s Echo Chamber, Unclouded — Great drums, great arrangements. Effortless and euro-funky.
Titanic, HAGEN — Another album to admire more than love. But such creativity on display. Mabe Fratti clearly has her own muse. Gelli Haha, Switcheroo — Silly and fun and super weird. If “manic pixie dream girl” was an album. Magic Fig, Valerian Tea — Retro ren faire space prog, just like you wanted. Ken Yates, Total Cinema — Like a warm bath for your ears. Venus & the Flytraps, Demonette — DIY sing-songy power-pop that’s clearly made for people much younger than us. Bill Laurence, Lumen — Solo piano music to rein in your wanderlusting brain.
Just realized I never shared my favorite albums of 2025. Terrible oversight on my part.
10.01.2026 15:11 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
#RedPlanet #FAVE25 next up its @nojoy.bsky.social #GarbageDreamHouse + #Psychgaze LP dropped in August on @handdrawndracula.bsky.social + #NP #AtoZ WSUM 91.7fm Madison wsum.org
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🐌🥹 thank youuuuu
31.12.2025 19:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
inaugurating my third annual #shoegaze awards with the lone inevitability of 2025, Best Song
mind blowing on first listen & only expanded from there
improbable fusion of beautiful, pastoral dreampop & heaviest rock, a perfect and inexplicable melding, the definition of magic
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No Joy - Bugland
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Best albums of 2025: #1 No Joy "Bugland"
#BestAlbums #BestOf2025 @nojoy.bsky.social #NoJoy #Indie #DreamPop
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30.12.2025 04:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
RollingStone = | MUSIC I Best Music of 2025: Staff Picks Miles Klee, Staff Writer 1. No Joy, Bugland 2. GOON, Dream 3 3. Sarah Klang, Beautiful Woman 4. Sedona, Getting Into Heaven 5. New Candys, The Uncanny Extravaganza 6. Lust For Youth and Croatian Amor, All Worlds 7. Mallrat, Light hit my face like a straight right 8. Marina, Princess of Power 9. Great Grandpa, Patience, Moonbeam 10. The Pearly Drops, The Voices Are Coming Back From the moment it dropped, No Joy's Bugland was the album of 2025 for me. A formidable contender for best shoegaze record of this decade, it reveals Jasmine White-Gluz's songwriting to be as surprising, muscular, and immersive as ever (and the live show rips, by the way). Elsewhere, I got hooked on scuzzy psychedelia from GOON and New Candys, and fell for the daydreamy, lighter-than-air hooks of Sedona and Sarah Klang. Mallrat and Pearly Drops both returned with albums of guitar-inflected indietronica that are impossible to categorize and seem recovered from some even stranger future era, while Great Grandpa's latest effort scratches that nostalgic itch for Nineties rock. Finally, it was a pleasure to hear Lust For Youth and Croatian Amor teaming up for a suite of icy Eurobeat tracks - and, of course, every release from pop royalty Marina will find a spot on my best-of-year list.
2025 is coming to a close, which means it's the one time of year that the music magazine where i work allows me to express opinions on the topic
29.12.2025 22:02 — 👍 209 🔁 7 💬 8 📌 1
October 16, 2025
Ep. 1027: No Joy
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🧡🐌 NO JOY @nojoy.bsky.social BUGLAND at #30 on Brooklyn Vegan’s Indie Basement: Top 40 Albums of 2025
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🔥 No Joy @nojoy.bsky.social BUGLAND on @rollingstone.com Best Music of 2025: Staff Picks (w/ @fire-toolz.bsky.social)
🔥 “A formidable contender for best shoegaze record of this decade”
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🧡 No Joy @nojoy.bsky.social BUGLAND on @allmusic.com’s Favorite Alternative Indie Albums of 2025 (@fire-toolz.bsky.social)
“maximalist pop that never stops changing gears but somehow never overwhelms – 4.5/5”
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26.12.2025 22:14 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here’s a Boxing Day deal for ya: my Top 100 Songs of 2025, absolutely free! open.substack.com/pub/stuberma...
26.12.2025 16:08 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
#MeinSongDesTages #MusicChallenge #MusicSky | 2025-12-25
"It was a Sunday
We stripped a tree
It was always about me
We’re getting too close together
We’re getting too close"
"Garbage Dream House" by No Joy ("Bugland", August 2025)
#Shoegaze #NoiseRock #Indietronica
24.12.2025 22:16 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
😂😂 being preoccupied with what's "real shoegaze" absolutely misses the point and does nothing for the genre
24.12.2025 01:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0also I do not take any top ten list missing @nojoy.bsky.social's 'Bugland' seriously
#shoegaze
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🐌 No Joy’s BUGLAND on @highcloudsmag.bsky.social Best EPs, Albums, Mixtapes of 2025
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🧡 No Joy 🐌 BUGLAND on BrooklynVegan’s Top 55 Albums Of 2025
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Incredibly honored 💞🐌
18.12.2025 13:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'Much has been made of the growing resurgence of shoegaze within the contemporary indie palette, but few are making quite such interesting use of it as No Joy does on her latest record Bugland'
No Joy - ‘Garbage Dream House’ is No 16 in The Quietus Tracks of the Year 2025
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🧡 NO JOY @nojoy.bsky.social “Garbage Dream House” at #16 on @thequietus.com Tracks of the Year 2025
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14.12.2025 19:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
next is one of the greatest boundary pushing #shoegaze albums of the last decade, on the same level as Parranoul's best stuff, it's Bugland by @nojoy.bsky.social
Bangers front to back, but 'Jelly Meadow Bright' specifically is one of the most heroically creative, mindblowing songs of recent times
