In this yawning 2025, nothing feels fun. City Builders is sick of that shit.
The alt-pop project from Toronto artist Grace Turner drops an electro beat on the kind of all-night revelry we used to have with “No Sleep,” a rowdy banger that throbs with euphoria as the walls of chaos close in around us. It’s a pulsating soundtrack for wild nights, reckless fun, and a sense of unhinged liberation we all seemed to have lost along the way to yesterday.
“My best friend and I turn into absolute demons on a night out,” says Turner. “There’s nothing like giving into your intrusive ideas with a best friend, and I needed to write something that sounded as chaotic as our nights out.”
Mission accomplished. “No Sleep” is a mascara-smeared compass for the party circuit, filled with the promise and intrigue of a pre-game dress-up sesh, the strobe-lit revelry of a 3 a.m. bass drop, and the slutty haze of a misguided hook-up just before dawn. Its DNA traces back to the untamed blog house era and a glitzy and glittery time when pop music wasn’t afraid of being a little bit disheveled, and there’s a sense of fun to it that’s sorely lacking right now.
“My goal as an artist is to enable people to feel their most extreme emotions,” Turner adds. “I hope this song helps people let loose and become a menace for a night because it is liberating. I also hope that this song encourages the listener to feel shameless and quiets the noise when the hangxiety of a crazy night out creeps in.”
There’s no shame in this game; just dial 666 and hit the town. There’s an afterparty somewhere.