Gonzalez’s research on women’s musical lament practices formed a historical backbone for what became No Sun. At the same time, she began her PhD in Musicology at UCLA. This left her alone and displaced, drifting from friend’s couch to friend’s couch. In 2018, Gonzalez’s twelve year marriage dissolved. The album is grounded in Gonzalez’s electronic oeuvre and academic research, but is also a sonic expulsion of pain.
I heard they said the truth will set you freeīorn out of personal loss, the tradition of lament, and a Moog sequencer, Nite Jewel’s No Sun is a feat of unguarded electronic music. I can’t do anything to make you come over to me I wouldn’t want anything than what’s best for usīut you keep leaving me with silence it hurts so much You hesitate to touch the water but i swimming out I won’t talk about my feelings if you come around