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!"
― rope (lloydwabbitt), Monday, 30 August 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Fellini.Kuti, Tuesday, 31 August 2010 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
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).
― LAMBDA LAMBDA LANDA (Beatrix Kiddo), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
everything they've done has been functional without really moving me
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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".
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Fellini.Kuti, Thursday, 2 September 2010 00:47 (fourteen years ago) link
the new record is OUT TODAY
P4k dropped a BNM on it too
― markers, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
WHOA
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 28 September 2010 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
WHOA AGE MORE LIKE
today's a pretty great day for new music
― markers, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14688-everything-in-between/
bee ok, i think you got in the "markers" robot today
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 28 September 2010 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Bee OK is a cool dude imo
― markers, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― dmr, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
im gonna see these guys this week in a venue thats perfectly suited for them: the hollywood bowl
― mayor jingleberries, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
The album is good -- more straightforward -- than the last, but after two weeks of intensive listening it's not much more.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
no age at the hollywood bowl with be incredible
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― mayor jingleberries, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah the bowl's younger ppl pandering lineup has been pretty o_O this year. didn't girls play that show too
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean I've seen all of these bands at pretty large venues and they've handled their shit but
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
this is worst cover art i've seen in a while
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
this thread really makes me miss the poster chaki
OTM ^^
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
love the cover!
― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
yea that cover is tite as hell
― tUrD-yArDs - BiRd-SHiTs (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― a sean te (samosa gibreel), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― a sean te (samosa gibreel), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
hey do you guys like this album?
― a sean te (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― a sean te (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― daavid, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link
...shame, cause the music is actually kind of good.
― daavid, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 05:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 05:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― dmr, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:22 (thirteen years ago) link
i have this weird feeling that if these guys keep at it they will eventually deliver a decent record
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Friday, 19 November 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― kanggene, Sunday, 21 November 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I treat the new record as an ambient thing or Discreet Music: it's splendid background.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 November 2010 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― T-Rex's erotic imagination (Z S), Sunday, 21 November 2010 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
they were really boring & bad sounding live
― ┌▪┌▫┌▪┌▫ EXIT ▪┐▫┐▫┐ (Lamp), Sunday, 21 November 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
haha, this is a marvelous, sly insult.
i like this band -- and the new record -- a lot.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 21 November 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 21 November 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
― ┌▪┌▫┌▪┌▫ EXIT ▪┐▫┐▫┐ (Lamp), Sunday, 21 November 2010 20:42 (1 hour ago) Bookmark
errrr u mad doggie
― Darren Huckerby (Dwight Yorke), Sunday, 21 November 2010 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
The new record is so spotty. Like, I absolutely love "Depletion", but there are so many bad to mediocre songs on here.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― need to impressive a girl? (Z S), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Got that list handy? I'm curious to see what is on it.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
(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 extremelyloudly. Their recordings were more lo-fi back then, and if you playthem at polite "medium-low because you're sitting next to someone on thetrain" volume the intended brutality just doesn't translate.
― need to impressive a girl? (Z S), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Teen Creeps otm but you can't leave out Eraser or Neck Escapah
― dmr, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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.
― dmr, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link