NO AGE

"Neck Escapah" off the Get Hurt EP is my favorite

they did five vinyl EPs for five labels, soon to be (mostly) compiled on the Weirdo Rippers cd

ps there's only 2 dudes in the band, that picture is all their buds

yes, noisy garage rock stuff - fun, haven't heard it since it came out though.

Playing Amoeba Hollywood in twenty minutes -- webcast at amoeba.com

It took me an entire day a few months back to track down all five EP's. I win/lose. They spell "NO Age" when you line them all up.

really liked their ep on upset the rhythm... they used to be in Wives, who were ace.

really liked their ep on upset the rhythm...

yeah that's the only one I've got right now, it's great. I may get others if I see em around. otherwise I'll just grab Weirdo Rippers which I think just came out in the States this week.

Excellent band. Their shoegazey noise into wonky hardcore thing works really well. Great live band too - caught em on tour with Smell buds Mika Miko (who also rule). Some of the best merch I've seen for a band their size - bandanas in every colour! Rad.

Totally loving this. I'm getting a bit of a Urinals/100 Flowers vibe, something about the hardcore tempos with art-punk aesthetic and pop melodies or something. Anyway, that's my favorite shit ever so this is striking a chord.

that's my favorite shit ever

I thought disco was your favorite shit ever! You rockist! *flees*

nope. My girlfriend always teases me because I'm all about these exagerated definitive statements "this is one of my top 2 favorite movies ever, I swear this time!"

But seriously. Black Hole by the Urinals is my first favorite thing ever.

And I Don't Own My Own Heart by 100 Flowers is my second favorite thing ever.

No worries, I agree with you on the worth of both, and while I was only tangentially following the word on these guys your reference immediately piques my interest now.

My girlfriend always teases me because I'm all about these exagerated definitive statements "this is one of my top 2 favorite movies ever, I swear this time!"

yep.

This is not one of my top two favorites ever. But I like this record a really really lot. No, rly.

yeah this is good. crashy, squawky and hooky.

I've been listening all day! Great thread.

Heard they just signed to Sub Pop?

^^^yes.

this is awesome. new album soon i guess?

"Everybody's Down" = greatest song evr.

I don't get this band AT ALL. To be fair, I only heard the 'collection' and not the individual EPs, but the drone stuff is pointless and the rock stuff - well, don't Japanther do this same thing, but, you know, better? Way too self consciously 'eclectic' for me, I guess.

hmmm, maybe I haven't heard enough Japanther, but I found their "noise/drone" less pretty/interesting and don't remember the songs very well.

I just freaked out an ordered all of the singles, a combination of 7 inches and 12 inches.
Is there any plan to release Weirdo Rippers on vinyl?

Great band.

Yeah Weirdo Rippers is great, lovely mix of fuzzy noise and noisy pop. Unfortunately I only got into them after they played here so I didn't go. Damn.

i like the feedback-y noise parts/songs so much i almost wish there was no singing.

almost.

BILLIANT

love it

I don't like their faces

Great thanks. I'd seen this before (as evidenced above) but couldn't find it. It wouldn't come in search for me. Great band!

MY LIFE'S ALRIGHT WITHOUT YOU!

I hate you!

Oh I hate you!

no age is great. wives were great too, especially live. "strip club" by 100 flowers is one of my favorite things ever.

Wives? Hang on...

Q: Do wives sound exactly the same and maybe if it were not impossible better than No Age?

how is there is another person named Dan who thinks "strip club" by 100 Flowers is one of my favorite things ever? I keep running accross other Dan's with identical obscure interests as mine. Sometimes I wonder if it's myself posting from the past...or the future.

never heard Wives though. I remember when they came around and there was a lot of "neo-hardcore" hype so I ignored it as my interests in hardcore, past and present, was pretty limited. Since then I've come to appreciate certain aspect of hardcore, and those aspects seem to be those that No Age works the most.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/45884-guest-list-no-age

At least I found somebody who agrees with me on M.I.A.!

I saw these guys at the Other Music in store yesterday. It was pretty fantastic. Not only did they play really well and got the crowd really excited but they were really great and didn't complain at all when the power went out and used it as an excuse to show us all how funny they were. So good.

I'm listening to Weirdo Rippers and its like perfectly distilled fun, so immediate & the riffs are immense. This is the sort of record I would have loved any time since I got into music, "warm & fuzzy" is right.

this is like sub japanther

that's the second time that's been mentioned here. Maybe I haven't heard enough Japanther. I used to see them live when they started playing around NY and it never did much for me. I really don't have much interest in a lot of the bands working various post-no wave revival skronk/noise craziness, and I like No Age's balance between the utterly accessible and often beautiful ambient partts, and the also utterly accessible and totally catchy minimalist hardcore punk riffing.

Maybe I haven't heard enough Japanther.

nah you probably have

I guess the upthread poster was actually recommending japanther but chaki is just h8n

yah. sub japanther at best. dan i thought you had a better ear than this.

I can recommed a good ENT doctor, if you need one, Dan.

did u guys ever see when peter criss went to the ear doctor on 321 contact?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=y4YM3fSbKQU

thats not it! the doctor said the cymbals were killing him.

yeah chaki my ears were destroyed...from having to sit through japanther at countless shows in brooklyn a few years ago.

"this is... a not joke"

just saw a clip of Japanther on the Death By Audio myspace page and sure, not that different from No Age and pretty good. There's a fine line between hyper distorted 90s indie rock and stuff that resonates more with punk from the past.

The 90's are the past!

the wounds are still healing though.

ok ok pretty fun

Are No Age a punk band? They seem more like 90s no-wave to me.

They are way more punk then 90s no-wave, which is why I like them. They have their ambient/noise intros and whatnot, but the heart of most songs are simple 2/3 chord riffs, the kinds that make me imagine young kids with skateboards stage-diving.

Hmm... going to see Jay Reatard, No Age, and Mika Miko at the Smell tonite... is this guy gonna be there?

http://www.theconnection.org/content/2005/07/19/0720newyorker173.gif

(...I hope so -- for once I won't feel like oldest / least hep dude @ the Smell)

I doubt it, he lives in New York. OBVIOUSLY.

Good point - he's probably more a Japanther fan

Meantime, what No Age were up to yesterday.

i don't want to hear this band. i'm protesting!

actually, sad to say, i think this is my one big prob with sasha's stuff. and i DO think he's a good writer and all that. but he never makes me want to hear something after i'm done reading a piece/review. which isn't his job or whatever. or is it? i read that thing last night and i wanted to be excited by it and i just got really bored. bored with their scene and their smell. and then they got on stage and the drummer played drums and the other guy played guitar and then the guy sang and it was as if they were doing it for their friends! fuck their friends. okay, i'm jealous. i have no friends. but still...zzzzzzzzz.....

eh

ah

Well the article was pretty boring.

I actually prefer Japanther too (esp. "Skuffed Up My Huffy"), though haven't seen them live yet

how in gods name can you enjoy japanther

Have you heard "Skuffed Up My Huffy"? They're pretty good songs!

(These are all bands that Mrs. Pavilion digs and got me into)

(By which I mean - I can't rep for them the same way I could with my own shit - but her taste may be better than mine, anyway)

Why is this thread so unsearchable?

Does anyone know anything about their Sub Pop deal? I assume it's for their next album (which will technically be their 1st, since "Weirdo Rippers" is a collection of singles - right?)...

Anyway, I still love this and think it might be my favorite of the year (it's almost definitely my most listened to album of the year).

I know, I search for weirdo rippers and there's a link to this thread from there.

Yeah I love this album. Completely devastated that I didn't see them when they played in dublin due to lack of funds, esp since I've seen some bands I'm not that bothered by.

My life's alright without you is still the one I love most.

This is pretty alright but I don't get this "no wave" talk at all. If not for the name, no one would make that connection right? Sounds more like pretty straight up punk/pop, in a good way. If there is such a thing...

I don't give a shit, It's just brilliant. Those sparkly blondie-ish melodies come come through the noise like it was an automatic slide door! Great guitar sound too.

hey! this is great! i only sort of hear the "no wave" thing, i think it's more pop than that, more jesus and mary chain perhaps. i am really digging this album, i just got it tonight. such big fuzzy riffs. so fun.

These guys suck.

no they good. (although the new yorker article made me think their scene might be kind of annoying and self-congratulatory if i lived in l.a. and was young enough to be in a scene. since neither of those things apply, i can just like the record.)

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isn't their name a reference to the SST record of the same name?

I'm getting so tired of this whole California scene (incl. Abe Vigoda) of kids who can't play worth a damn so they make it 'noisy' and 'punk'. We associate ourselves with the noise scene. Oh, it's okay then.

Yeah yeah, it's all community/live based. Who cares. What about the music?

isn't their name a reference to the SST record of the same name?

Yeah, they talked about it either in that New Yorker piece or in an old Vice interview - but at least one of the guys says he hates that album (to paraphrase, it's something like "Yeah, it's this SST comp where Greg Ginn made all the bands record instrumentals, and it's mostly pretty bad").

I want to hear that Abe Vigoda album. I like the bits I've heard so far. (Though people keep using the word 'Calypso' when they talk about them, which I haven't detected yet).

kids who can't play worth a damn

Huh?

As in, they can't play their instruments. They are very limited.

Skater punk? No age? The entire skate punk genre (in fact the entire skate culture) sure gives me associations to one particular age. Around 14-15 that is....

Check, please!

'No Age' the comp I assume was a riff on 'no wave' in the first place right?

As far as I can tell this band can 'play' perfectly adequately for what they're putting across, unless you're like some Dream Theater fan or something

Exactly. And what they're 'putting across' is:

dumbed-down punk
dumbed-down noise
dumbed-down hardcore

+ whatever else they have up their sleeve. And by dumbed down, yes I do mean texturally, compositionally. There ARE people in those genres who pay attention to those things...

I still don't really get what you're talking about. The drummer is great. The guitars are pretty. The lyrics are fun. The songs are catchy. Are you just saying you don't like this band?

Haha

Yes. I don't like this band. Sorry to ruin the parade.

Continue the 'fun'.

Hmm... going to see Jay Reatard, No Age, and Mika Miko at the Smell tonite... is this guy gonna be there?

:D :D :D :D :D :D MAY 6

Nouns:

01 Miner
02 Eraser
03 Teen Creeps
04 Things I Did When I Was Dead
05 Cappo
06 Keechie
07 Sleeper Hold
08 Errand Boy
09 Here Should Be My Home
10 Impossible Bouquet
11 Ripped Knees
12 Brain Burner

I can't wait for this. Weirdo Rippers is about 10000 times better than I thought it would be. The Skater Punk label is misleading. They're closer to Wire or My Bloody Valentine than to Suicidal Tendencies.

I hear early Pavement.

sleeper hold sounded great in that video from other music

I kinda wish they would continue in the same style of releasing several singles and then collecting them later for a full length I have the first 5 singles, but not Weirdo Rippers (because it's not on vinyl to my knowledge...right?), and I've gotten to really enjoy listening to them in 2 to 4 song bursts.

whoa new album excited

That was quick I love love love love love love love love love this band by the way

this band rules. two really great dudes! saw wives back at a basement show a few years ago and have been following these dudes ever since.

I agree with whoever said japanther do the same thing better.

Why does their cover of "When You Find Out" by The Nerves not even remotely resemble the original version?

This is an important question.

Help celebrate Worldwide Hipster Day with No Age!

i am not nor ever have been a hipster, thanks.

Remember those skater punks that John Cusack busts for trying to shoplift in High Fidelity? I always thought No Age sounds like their band would sound like.

don't they play some of their shit in the movie and it's like balls breakbeat electronica?

More specifically, their remix of the Holy Fuck's Lovely Allen sounds like the skater punks from High Fidelity. Sort of dubbed out art damaged electronica with a lot of screaming.

by the way that sounds great

the skater kids' music in High Fidelity is Royal Trux

I bought that E.P. with the Nerves "cover" on it - isn't it just a minute and a half of ambient noise, basically? I was pretty excited about that, too. Their Urinals cover is awesome. And the other cover on there (I don't remember the name of the song or artist, though). Their Bjork cover is totally dismantled but still vaguely recognizable.

Other cover on the Eraser b-side is Don't Stand Still by Nate Denver's Neck. Is great.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c425/c425130w4io.jpg
Found this at the radio station a couple of weeks ago.

Unfortunately I don't really want to listen to it or this band.

the first and last song on the new EP - Losing Feeling are masterpieces.
adding reverb and shoegaze to their sound,reducing the punk - the new direction they took sounds great.

did not know abt this, thanks for the heads up.

also,Randall voice sounds fragile, more emotional - the first song is kinda sad.

where can i hear?

It's streaming, hang on...

http://pitchfork.com/news/36128-hear-the-new-no-age-ep-in-its-entirety/

worrrrrrrrrrrrd

You need to sign up for a Sub Pop account a shit, although I think it's free. NB I haven't tried to sign up or listen to the stream yet.

*and shit

these guys are still just ok.

the "japanther is better" thing is funny and backs my sentiment as they were always just sort of ok as well but had the hype.

this all just makes me think of the locust. as in hype.

japanther are pretty good I think

the new EP is pretty solid. i agree with what's been said about the first and last songs on it. the other stuff is a bit harder to get into, but it reminds me a lot of what was compiled on weirdo rippers.

japanther are decent-- you can't really fault them for coming out after no age-- but their songs don't stick as well as no age's stuff does.

Japanther were out well before No Age, maybe you're thinking of Japandroids?

oh jesus, yes. my bad.

you sure it wasn't Japancakes?

Or Japan Jizz Jars?

(That may not be a band.)

(I did get an email notice, though.)

When the title track of the new ep finally kicks in on the final minute, it fucking RIPS. No Age's finest minute, I think, and I'll definitely be picking it up when it comes out even though the singing on the second track is off key in the kind of way that actually makes my hair stand up and my jaw jut out a little uncontrollably, in a bad bad way.

New EP is so good. Best thing they ever did

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

Such a cool band.

Looking forward to this. Any progression in their sound?

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

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

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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

For serious though... I LOVE this record (and their others), but they really don't go anywhere new ever.
They gotta get sick of that eventually (maybe).

For now, I'll just keep enjoying all the new songs.

Looks like the shows are still hot too:

http://youtu.be/hDmgKavjxE8

they did go somewhere new in this record. and failed imo.

yeah. i'd respectfully disagree with that.
maybe superficially slightly diff at times (we used contact mics... not drums!), but very much cut from the same cloth.

the energy is gone, and i think that was at least half of what made them good.

I can see somebody finding that an issue, but they've been playing the fuzzy melancholy hand (via 80s indie heroes) pretty hard for awhile now.

yeah i know, their "quite" record were never my cup of tea..

Seems like people stopped talking about the new album the second it came out! Anyway, I wrote a bunch of words on it (and even more about the Urinals) here:

http://www.spin.com/articles/no-age-an-object-urinals-another-ep/

i love no age. the new album isn't as good as the others but i still like it

they haven't broken up, have they?

MY LIFE'S ALRIGHT WITHOUT YOU!

― I know, right?, Saturday, October 13, 2007 2:57 PM (7 years ago)

except you

not you guys

i forgot about no age! i probably need to give their most recent one more chances, but i really didn't like it compared to all of their other stuff for some reason

me too! i don't even remember listening to "an object" even though i probably did.

it kind of worked better live, but I haven't returned to it much at all.

i only listened to them from nouns and after, due to being moderately less cool than ppl who are way cool

weirdo rippers is nice to go back and get comfy with

ah, they played a secret show here last month or so, i guess they're still going. glad

everything in between is pretty good, even if nouns and weirdo rippers are better

I adore EiB, Nouns, and the Losing Feeling EP is amazing too if you haven't heard it.
Saw them play some great shows during that era with a third member in the band, but when I saw them for An Object it was just Dean and Randy.

i only listened to them from nouns and after, due to being moderately less cool than ppl who are way cool

weirdo rippers is nice to go back and get comfy with

― j., Thursday, August 20, 2015 5:03 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

weirdo rippers precedes nouns though

right there was a narrative there, about what i only did, versus what i went on to do and in fact am doing right now

sorry man i aint proust

oh i guess read going back and getting comfy with as revisiting

weirdo rippers rules imo

it seems like turning down the riffiness worked a bit better for them

sorry man i aint proust

this is my new excuse for every one of my posts that are missing key things, like subjects or predicates or pronouns or reasons for existing

~~~~modernism~~~~~

into it!

I have never been cooler than when I knew about Weirdo Rippers when it came out.

how have you handled life since

Well I've listened to less indie

Which made me less cool? Never really thought about this one before

no, that doesn't sound right

Yeah good point. Cool album though

I didn't care for their last album that came out years ago, but this new song is excellent.

https://noage.bandcamp.com/album/snares-like-a-haircut

I loved that album, would rank it 2nd behind Nouns, super psyched they're back, was worried for a while they'd given up.

That 'Losing Feeling' EP and 'Everything In Between' still blow me away.
Maybe I should give 'An Object' another chance.

yeah I love it & don't know why the reception was so lukewarm at the time. I saw them play a month after it came out to a depressingly sparse crowd. they'd oversold the same venue 5 years earlier. Still super sweet guys.

Listening to the single now. I dig it, seems like an odd choice for a first single, & honestly not as good as anything on An Object. Looking forward to seeing them in November.

I wasn't blown away by the 'An Object' material live-it seemed tentative.
saw them play a Thurston Moore SXSW showcase that blew my mind.

'fever dreaming' at a deafening volume is maybe one of my fav songs ever

Yes, Fever Dreaming is my favorite too.

Maybe I need to listen to An Object more. I just remember when it came out, all the talk was about how they created all the artwork and hand-assembled the CDs themselves. When you're more excited about the packaging than the music, it's rarely a good sign.

yeah I remember that, it was bogus. though I imagine there is a pressure/expectation - when you're a plain old rock n roll band - to gussy up your press releases and promo sheets with something other than "Another collection of superb rock songs by No Age!" which is all An Object was- a really great collection of songs.

also the production was really great & kinda makes this new single sound weak in comparison. idk, maybe I need to listen more, but that shit sounds paper-thin. I mean I know they're Hüsker Dü superfans but

revisiting An Object today. as much as I love it I didn't listen to it after 2013. no fucking idea why, because now I'm convinced it's their best album by a long shot. heavy production, all killer no filler, that feedback loop refrain in "C'mon Stumming"? good god

possibly an unpopular opinion but if everything in between would have been released in 2003 and had more mainstream production values and dean and randy looked like strokes, they would have been bigger than the strokes

which is a really dumb way of saying that almost the entire album is catchy as hell, just full of earworms

no that's pretty much otm, & goes for all their other albums. like imagine if Weirdo Rippers came out in 1999

i like these points :)
really digged all their stuff other than 'an object', will give it a relisten or two in lieu of you guys' posts

don't know why the reception was so lukewarm at the time

some of the reviews were all 'why does NA not want to rock'

listening to it this morning it was very resonant, i wonder how much the lyrical/thematic content a la 'stimmung' was part of a design w/ the sound

I can't believe this band is ten years old now

"I Won't Be Your Generator" and "An Impression" are still stunning... I think they finally achieved the perfect synthesis of loud guitar rock & electronics on this record. if nothing else it's the best sounding of all their records - like I said upthread, Nouns is great but sounds too thin, very much like HD's Warehouse.

New album sounds great.

Very psyched to hear. Is it streaming anywhere?

oh whoa i forgot that it comes out today. i had a ticket to see them a couple months ago but didn't end up going, was kicking myself as i stayed at home and still am... so im a little sore

seriously though fuck this narrative of An Object being a 'failure' or a disappointment. I don't know why it got such tepid & negative reviews, that's their best record, if not a close second behind Nouns. I already talked about why upthread but goddamn, how many rock songs are as thrilling as "C'mon Stimmung"?

If you like An Object you will probably not like this as much, it's more direct.

"more direct" = stripped down/less melodic? because An Object sounds pretty direct to me, particularly the rock songs

https://www.spin.com/2018/01/no-age-snares-like-a-haircut-review/

Hopping from Sub Pop to the venerable but curmudgeonly Drag City is symbolic and instructive; while No Age likely have no interest in seeing Snares Like a Haircut on Spotify, it bears by far their highest ratio of “songs” to “ambient drift,” with several that could conceivably crash playlists worded to appeal to people who still associate indie rock with “guitars.”

is the inference that they are moving somewhere that will give them a chance to crash playlists or they are moving somewhere that will let them avoid being on spotify (thus safe to have songs that could crash playlists despite themselves)

That they did it to intentionally make their music more obscure, which I completely disagree with. That’s not the case at all, they’ve never been Fugazi or Albini puritans (thank god)

lol i bought my fugazi albums at best buy just like the 'alt rock is cool' tv commercials in the 90s told me to

kind of realized it's the ambient drift, or more likely,'Reoccurring Dreams'-type pieces that I love in particular, whether that's 'Sun Spots' or 'My Hands, Birch and Steel'.

listening on apple music and wow this is really good

5/5

how were Fugazi puritans musically speaking?

Ian owned his own label and hot like $6 per CD when most artists got like 80 cents and they could do like 300k units

when Ahmet Ertegan told Ian I'll give you your own label and a million Ian told him I already have both those things

when Ahmet Ertegan told Ian I'll give you your own label

Yes. I remember a huge Fugazi feature in the Washington Post during the peak of the mid 90s alternative boom. Record companies were all throwing themselves at them, they would have made them the biggest band in the world if they were willing, but they just said no.

but, A) I think Ian correctly saw that Fugazi would never be the biggest band in the world and that B) 6 * 300,000 is more than 0.80 * 900,000 plus you own your masters etc, I guess I question the idea that he did it for irrational reasons of punk cred or be whatever it more just seemed like rational business decisions

I already have both those things

and he bought nothing but rice with it, what a waste

he owns at least 2 properties in this area, we should all be so poor

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/globalrelevanceex_sort/38.979027,-76.983691,38.86484,-77.166682_rect/12_zm/

is the inference that they are moving somewhere that will give them a chance to crash playlists or they are moving somewhere that will let them avoid being on spotify

Don't think he's implying either of those -- I think he's saying the move to Drag City is symbolic of the musical direction of the new album vs. the last one; he considers the Drag City roster (and the new album) to be more traditionally guitar-centric indie rock than current Sub Pop roster (and the last album). The Spotify/playlist references were just to get some buzzwords in there.

but are they in fact not streaming-accessible?

iirc drag city is on bandcamp but not spotify etc

he considers the Drag City roster (and the new album) to be more traditionally guitar-centric indie rock than current Sub Pop roster (and the last album).

is that true? i admit i don't follow the indie scene like i used to, but my stereotypes of the two labels were more like:

2000s sub pop: traditionally guitar-centric indie rock, trying not trying to write a indie hit that might be licensed for a movie - average audience age at shows: 20-25
2000s drag city: guitar-centric but contemplative fingerpickers who are very sad about things and play more quietly these days - average audience age at shows: 30-50

i fully admit that maybe the perception of those labels has totally switched around since i last paid attention

Drag City is on Apple Music as of last year, but not Spotify. Can confirm that the new No Age is not on Spotify but can't check Apple Music.

2000s drag city: guitar-centric but contemplative fingerpickers who are very sad about things and play more quietly these days - average audience age at shows: 30-50

― Karl Malone, Monday, January 29, 2018 11:58 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'M RIGHT HERE I CAN HEAR U

lol

Hey man, that’s some of my very favorite kind of music! For real. It’s just, I associate that stuff with drag city more than sub pop

haha i know i was just making a sad dad joek :)

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/858/MI0003858538.jpg

is that blackshaw?

JimO

https://www.tinymixtapes.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/Article_Width/1505/news-15-05-orourke.jpg

oh duh yeah

Love this album. Hits the spot.

man i basically forgot about these guys and this new album is a fuckin' lovely hit of sunshine

amazing album, cover art is too next level for me though

knife piercing free-standing piece of swiss cheese on a 2x4 is my level

I love this record.

Stuck in the Changer is so great, didn't realise how much I needed a vulnerable noise record right now.

y'all this new No Age record...I don't have anything brilliant to add, but I'm on the biggest No Age kick right now.

I don't like their faces

― Dan I., Tuesday, September 25, 2007

I have always remembered this post, from the “old days” – it struck me as audaciously perfect at the time. I still think of it when this band comes up.

going to see them tomorrow

Same! Haven't seen them since they opened for Pavement.

report back!

Reporting back: great band still great. I don't know how Dean Spunt does it.

going through nouns again as i love it as a start of summer album

"cappo" is so good driving in a hot car

yeah that song rules, i always get the first line stuck in my head, "it's our duty to"

man i basically forgot about these guys and this new album is a fuckin' lovely hit of sunshine

― alpine static, Sunday, February 11, 2018 10:52 PM (nine months ago)

i still think it's one of 2018's most underrated great albums. i see literally no one nowhere talking about it.

definitely one of my top albums this year.

this is lame but i didn't listen to it earlier this year because it wasn't on spotify and i didn't see it in any of the other usual places (bandcamp, npr first listen or whatever). but it's there now (guess drag city had a change of heart), so i finally listened to it last night! the energy of it reminds me of Everything In Between, which was one of my favorite albums of 2010 (and one of the more underrated releases of the decade, i think).

Yes to Everywhere In Between being a top rock album of the decade.

I'm not sure why this new one isn't getting more buzz. It's fantastic, and Send Me is easily one of my favorite songs of the year.

feel like No Age sorta feel thru the cracks. the indie press that championed them in 2008 don't care anymore and they never broke thru to a higher level. I don't think they ever established a solid fan base that would be with them no matter what. I saw them at a warehouse here in 2008 and it was packed, dangerously overcrowded even, and only five years later it was basically empty just a few weeks after An Object came out (fwiw I think that's their unsung masterpiece).

Snares is their best since Nouns. Top 5 of the year. I think I like it better than Everything In Between.

this is lame but i didn't listen to it earlier this year because it wasn't on spotify
lame but true for me too

glad to see it's there now!

it would seem that their style/genre is... not really in vogue

feel like No Age sorta feel thru the cracks. the indie press that championed them in 2008 don't care anymore and they never broke thru to a higher level. I don't think they ever established a solid fan base that would be with them no matter what. I saw them at a warehouse here in 2008 and it was packed, dangerously overcrowded even, and only five years later it was basically empty just a few weeks after An Object came out (fwiw I think that's their unsung masterpiece).

― flappy bird, Wednesday, November 21, 2018 1:31 PM (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's interesting looking at their discogs, where cost of the vinyl is somewhat indicative of a band's cult following. It also has to do with the amount of copies out in the wild of course, but usually the record that corresponds to a band's peak will hold on to some value and it seems sellers can't even get rid of Nouns.

Their style may not be the hottest thing for the current indie crowds but it doesn't feel as dated as some other yelpy indie-punk trends of the past, or much less some other style that was once big like freak folk etc.

Side note: I would LOVE to hear the guitarist try his best to make music similar to Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. I think he'd be great at it!

yeah that's what confuses me, it's not dated at all, they're a great rock band with great songs. the light incorporation of electronics is distinct from p much every other band of their era bc they never sounded like they were using samplers to sound like animal collective

whew i was worried they had an apartment building too

lol

New song streaming now and album due in June: https://www.stereogum.com/2074375/no-age-turned-to-string/music/

love it

modern modern lovers

I do like this song. That write-up is accurate in noting it sounds like Parquet Courts (in a good way).

best band

So good

Their last album was overlooked

very very very very very much so ^

'Snares' might be my favourite No Age album. I also loved Randy's Sound Field project from last year - one of the best pure ambient albums I've enjoyed in recent times. I don't think I know anyone else who's listened to it, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAPeP4G1zfY

Tune

https://noage.bandcamp.com/album/goons-be-gone

it's really nice!

August 28, 2007 11:56 AM (twelve years ago)

gaaah

i kind of check in and out on this band but the vocals on the new one sound weird to me, like really dry and up front. have they been doing that for a while or is it new on this album?

tbh i think the vocals have always been a sticking point for me with no age, even though i love a lot of singers with "bad" voices

I like the new one, though feel like it hits its stride with the last three tracks. Which is kind of the opposite of 'Snares' for me. Need to spend more time with it.

^^^ otm. This is the first No Age I'm indifferent to.

I get what you mean. The vocal thing was actually a bugbear of mine with "Everything in Between" back in the day for similar reasons. Still never really got into that album.

An album poll could be fun.

haha eib my favourite no age record