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16 July 2026 – No Joy And Fire-Toolz Start ‘Barking At The Sun’
By Editorial Team - July 16, 2026
Summary
No Joy reunites with Fire-Toolz for 'Barking At The Sun' from their upcoming EP 'Big Life, Big Leaf'.
Key Facts
- No Joy and producer Fire-Toolz reunite for the single 'Barking At The Sun'.
- The track serves as the opener for their upcoming EP 'Big Life, Big Leaf'.
- Features experimental elements like DJ scratches, rhythmic judders, and Drop C guitars.
- Entities: No Joy, Fire-Toolz, Barking At The Sun, Big Life, Big Leaf, Bugland
- Tags: no joy, fire-toolz, barking at the sun, shoegaze, experimental
<a href="/tags/no joy">No Joy</a> reunites with experimental producer <a href="/tags/fire-toolz">Fire-Toolz</a> for ‘Barking At The Sun’, the opening track from the forthcoming three-song EP ‘Big Life, Big Leaf’. The collaboration builds on last year’s ‘Bugland’ while pushing No Joy’s fuzz-pop into an even stranger and more colourful shape.
The song began with an old Drop C guitar demo before being assembled from fragments and transformed by <a href="/tags/fire-toolz">Fire-Toolz</a> through DJ scratches, sudden rhythmic judders and bursts of electronic detail. Despite those unpredictable elements, the track retains an ecstatic, open-road feeling.
<a href="/tags/no joy">No Joy</a> has compared it to driving through empty fields on the first warm days of spring and watching an eclipse make the world appear to end and begin at once. That sensation comes through clearly: distorted guitars glow, unexpected sounds flash past and the entire arrangement feels temporarily larger than the landscape.