No Joy – Wait to Pleasure

11 tracks of absolutely top-quality shoegaze from Montreal's No Joy, unabashedly plundering everything from My Bloody Valentine (the faded female vocals and walls of crashing guitar noise), Curve (the juddering synths and electronic drums underpinning tracks like Blue Neck Riviera) and Swervedriver, and the delicately blistering noise-pop hooks of Lush and Cocteau Twins.

You might not find much that will surprise you on their follow-up to 2010's Ghost Blonde, but there is much to delight and astound – from the 4AD-influenced shimmering melodies of Uhy Yuoi Yoi, bordering on Beach House-style dream-pop, to the fuzzed-out assault of chiming opener E. Of course, there is a decidedly ethereal, spectral bent to singer Jasamine White-Gluz's vocal performances, but they are never saccharine; twinned with layered slabs of guitar and seamlessly-blended analogue and digital rhythms. No Joy join Team Ghost and Solar Bears at the forefront of the current shoegaze revival movement. One for the true devotees. [Bram E. Gieben]