NO AGE

this thread really makes me miss the poster chaki

this is worst cover art i've seen in a while

OTM ^^

love the cover!

yea that cover is tite as hell

By this point, you probably know what goes into a No Age song: A scuzzy intro jumps face-first into a thrashabout hook, either jumping again into another firestorm or swelling to a swift end.

^^^ a pretty hilarious combination of words describing a rock n roll band imo

i havent listened to it in forever but i can't remember a single song on nouns even though i listened to it a tonne that year. weirdo rippers is a classic though, i think

going to listen to this now

hey do you guys like this album?

listened to the first half earlier today and it was so underwhelming i don't know if i ever want to listen to it again & leave my loving memories of no age intact. some cool momentary guitar noises but i really don't like the mature & slower songwriting stuff they're doing, even though i liked some of the slower, instrumental/loop stuff from previous albums a lot

I haven't payed attention to these guys until now, mainly cause I strongly suspected they were yet another indie act with this particular annoying style of male vocals that's so prevailing nowadays. Suspicion confirmed.

...shame, cause the music is actually kind of good.

I didn't like Nouns the first few times and eventually it became my favorite album of '08. The new one could be another grower.

i havent listened to it in forever but i can't remember a single song on nouns even though i listened to it a tonne that year.

for me Eraser is the one

i have this weird feeling that if these guys keep at it they will eventually deliver a decent record

Its pretty cool to hear a fusion between pop/punk/rock with ambient music. Seems like they've really "matured" their song with Everything In Between.

I treat the new record as an ambient thing or Discreet Music: it's splendid background.

but the new one is way less ambient than the previous releases - other than a couple of instrumental passages on the second side, it's all song-oriented. I enjoy it the most when I can blast it loudly, foreground style!

they were really boring & bad sounding live

i have this weird feeling that if these guys keep at it they will eventually deliver a decent record

haha, this is a marvelous, sly insult.

i like this band -- and the new record -- a lot.

A long story short -- was talking with one of these guys on e-mail the other week about something else and he told me that back when he was a teenager getting into music I had sent him a transcript of my Kevin Shields interview back in 1996 or so when he contacted me about it. Damn small world.

they were really boring & bad sounding live

― ┌▪┌▫┌▪┌▫ EXIT ▪┐▫┐▫┐ (Lamp), Sunday, 21 November 2010 20:42 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

errrr u mad doggie

The new record is so spotty. Like, I absolutely love "Depletion", but there are so many bad to mediocre songs on here.

I think the new one is more consistently good than anything else they've released, but yeah, there are a few I tend to skip. tbh, I <3 them mainly for the two or three standout tracks on each album more than anything. I have a running best of with them that's only 10 tracks long, but maaaan is it an excellent 30 minutes or so imo

Got that list handy? I'm curious to see what is on it.

(copied from an email via iphone so hopefully the formatting won't be fucked:)

Losing Feeling - 3:55 (Losing Feeling EP)
Skinned 2:58 (Everything in Between)
Sleeper Hold - 2:26 (Nouns)
Life Prowler - 2:37 (Everything in Between)
My Life's Alright Without You - 1:59 (Weirdo Rippers)
Teen Creeps - 3:25 (Nouns)
You're a Target 3:22 (Losing Feeling)
Boy Void - 1:45 (Weirdo Rippers)
Miner - 1:50 (Nouns)
Valley Hump Crash - 3:52 (Everything in Between)
28:09

The Weirdo Rippers tracks in particular need to be played extremely
loudly. Their recordings were more lo-fi back then, and if you play
them at polite "medium-low because you're sitting next to someone on the
train" volume the intended brutality just doesn't translate.

Teen Creeps otm but you can't leave out Eraser or Neck Escapah

they were really boring & bad sounding live

― ┌▪┌▫┌▪┌▫ EXIT ▪┐▫┐▫┐ (Lamp), Sunday, 21 November 2010 20:42 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

errrr u mad doggie

― Darren Huckerby (Dwight Yorke), Sunday, November 21, 2010 5:42 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

I saw them play a smaller room once (er actually it was a parking garage ... punk rock yall) and it was pretty good. at a bigger outdoor show it sounded like mud, they sucked. whether that was their fault or the sound guy's I'm not totally sure.

Everyone on this thread is talking about tracks like "Valley Hump Crash" and "Depletion", but those might be my least favourite songs on the album. BTW, I LOVE "EVERYTHING INBETWEEN", all of it. Wasn't "Weirdo Rippers" even more "ambient" than this? I need to revisit that one.

yeah i think it had to do w/ the room & the way the sound was set up (drums were mic'd weird?) but it just made them sound sludgy and boring

xp

Weirdo rippers was way more ambient (or had more frequent and longer ambient passages at least). Ditto Nouns.

Everything In Between > Weirdo Rippers > Nouns

They do tend to make minor records, but they're fantastic minor records.
When the heck is the next one out already???

i'd put them in the same order, and i feel the same way!

we're obviously correct then!

i hope they have some new stuff out soon.
it's been almost 2 years. i need my fix.

......no age are you there?

They’ve recorded 27 tracks thus far and are currently “trying to make sense of it.”

Oh hurry up with it.

kind of a disappointing new album :/

sounds like a collection of atmospheres

yeah, i agree. just sounds like a mass of rough sketches

it leaked? c'mon stimmung is fantastic...

the electric sound of floor wax

i really like the instrumentals but i don't like the lower, throaty vocals

album is totally a grower. becomes compulsive stuff.
another minor winner, i'd say!

the single is def a grower. i dug a few of the album tracks right away.

hasn't clicked yet. seems awful CLEAR.

"lock box" is dope.

Got my clear vinyl in the mail yesterday. On first listen, this definitely trumps Everything in Between. Maybe not quite up to the standard of Nouns. I am rooting for 'em.

i like this so far but it does sound like the album a band releases right before it breaks up

yeah it does sounds like Let It Be

it's VERY Tin Drum.

http://madamepickwickartblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/drum1.jpg