Even if you weren’t alive then, you surely have an image of what it felt like to be young in the years between 1995 and 9/11—between the death of Kurt Cobain and the supposed death of irony. Bugland, Jasamine White-Gluz’s first album as No Joy album since 2020’s Motherhood, lives in this memory. Many albums do in 2025, as fantasies about the supposed freedom and joy of the Clinton era reach their fifth year en vogue. The difference is that Bugland knows that it’s living in a memory. Bugland is at once a perfect album for our current shoecraze and unlike any other record alongside which it might be discussed.