NO AGE

The cover of Weirdo Rippers is so fucking bad, I want to punch it

― unban dance squad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, September 27, 2009 7:25 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark

hahaha otm

well kinda, they were shoegazy and reverby on the first lp. then dropped some of it on the second. and on halfway through a first drunken hearing it sounds like both albums are sort of squashed together.
pretty good, but i'll defo wait until tomorrow to provide a concrete opinion.
to be honest it sounds more like weirdo rippers than nouns, there are definite proper abstract songs. but also, there are the full on punk rawk tracks which i love.
a gud ep.

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but i for sure have a soft spot for these guys; regardless of the pitchfork hype. i love the hard drums with pop hooks. srsly fucking love that. can deal with the heavy reverb and think it adds something to the music, but am glad that its not all echoey and experimental...

some new stuff here: http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/no-age-concert/20030822-3738137.html

two new songs on their myspace: "In Peril," which could almost be from Pink Flag if it didn't sound like No Age, scrappy and too short to only listen to once, and "Brett Schultz Himself," which I think shows the Disco Inferno influence they've been talking about.

They're playing in a couple of hours in Miami in honor of National Record Store Day.

damn son, i'm 12 hours from miami. don't think i'm going to make it.

i guess I'm just having a conversation with myself, but in the event that someone else cares there's new stuff here: http://ashtapes.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-age.html and it has me vry excite for the new album.

awesome. thanks for the link.

thanks!!!

★★★Glittter!!!★★★

kind of a let down in my o. Where's the energy, bros? I think the lackluster drum beat is the problem. It might grow on me though

you can also listen to "Inflorescence" at pitchfork, which isn't going to be on the album, but it is good. More like what I want from them.

No Age - Everything In Between

i really like "glitter"

it's hard to remember which random indie albums you make threads for

I don't feel I've don't ILM a disservice by posting here rather than in a newer thread that jacks the content I've posted here and has two responses

I don't feel I've

*done*

whoops whoops

otm

the new track is mediocre. nothing special.

wow this is so fucking depressed and despondent

both of them.

what happened in this dude's personal life between Nouns and now?

i'm feeling it. will go right beside King of the Beach (album of the year so far for me)

yeah, its a great record for its faint spray of gloom over the din

Where's the energy, bros?

fever dreaming on the new one has some great punk riffage

they lost some of their edge.

One time I threw the guitarist from No Age into a pool. That was fun.

Fever Dreaming absolutely killed when I saw them a few months ago. So much so that I actually remembered its existence when I heard this record and said "I remember this! It was good!"

kind of hated it through my laptop speakers. Loved it like lice like hair** through good speakers. the DI-esque parts* become the main show, and the guitar drums vox are like a cool breeze blowing through. But they sometimes play the main, actual "Song" parts (which likely take much longer to compose, but here take second stage) too long and you're like man, get me back to them 10's slacker jams (as blissed out/ducktails/washed out/run dmt/universalstudios etcetc's music shall henceforth be known(previously Post-Anco/chillwave). Like, get out of the breeze. The sun is so nice. But really it's all good. It moves me, physically. Physics and Feelings are closer than we sometimes realize. I don't like people who don't like this band.

Chem Trails should play of over the main credits of this decades' Do The Right Thing, a Tim & Eric joint.

*which have always been a part of their sound really, but now you're more aware of listening to a sample. and often the sample source as well. whereas before a guitar sounded like a seagull or a jet engine, here it sounds like a guitar, but still blissed to fuck and mbvvvv'ed beyond all mbveeeps.

**In that I feel like I'm crawling through it.

eh. you know, new one isn't half bad. i feel like they're continuing to sound more and more like a punk band instead of a punk band high on MBV. everything they've done has been functional without really moving me. the live score for that movie they soundtracked is honestly the most effecting thing i've heard from them - it might make my P&J top ten this year (seriously).

everything they've done has been functional without really moving me

i feel like they're continuing to sound more and more like a punk band instead of a punk band high on MBV.

I don't understand this comment at all ... and I think they're sounding more like MBV as they go along. The new album feels a lot less frantic than "Nouns", and the second half is relatively mellow and not punk-y at all. And "Katerpillar" is easily the most MBV-ish thing they've ever done.

I really like this album though, but it's a lot less immediate than "Nouns".

They are a great punk band. That's the thing. Nouns sounds like My Bloody Valentine plus Blitzkrieg Bop. This is Disco Inferno plus Blitzkrieg Bop. This band is just perfect to me. I'm enjoying their career trajectory far more than that of liars, who three records in found endless acclaim for what sounded then and now like a bunch of guys who couldn't really play getting by on a year of studio fiddling. Let it be known, I love studio fiddling; I love players who can't play, but No Age are blitz as shit and still fuck around in the studio. That's why I love this. No Age are Against Me! with a brain. Where other punk bands space out the barn burners with middling schlock (think Green Day's "21 Guns"), No Age realize that lyrics ain't what you came for, and that their noise can be just as compelling without the propulsion. It's punk for English MA students, or at least the ones who don't teach freshman comp because it would cut into their drinking time.

the new record is OUT TODAY

P4k dropped a BNM on it too

WHOA

WHOA AGE MORE LIKE

today's a pretty great day for new music

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14688-everything-in-between/

bee ok, i think you got in the "markers" robot today

Bee OK is a cool dude imo

can't really get into "Glitter," I think it's the deadpan / too clean vocals. the guitar sound is aiight

Loved it like lice like hair**

weirdo

im gonna see these guys this week in a venue thats perfectly suited for them: the hollywood bowl

The album is good -- more straightforward -- than the last, but after two weeks of intensive listening it's not much more.

no age at the hollywood bowl with be incredible

95% of the stage will be empty

I like no age but I can't even imagine that someone thought that would be a good idea

it could be worse.. could be beach house who opened for vampire weekend the other day. two people playing lo fi jams in front of like 20,000.

yeah the bowl's younger ppl pandering lineup has been pretty o_O this year. didn't girls play that show too

I mean I've seen all of these bands at pretty large venues and they've handled their shit but

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

this thread really makes me miss the poster chaki