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
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.
― 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
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
― Lamp, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Weirdo rippers was way more ambient (or had more frequent and longer ambient passages at least). Ditto Nouns.
― need to impressive a girl? (Z S), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
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???
― mr.raffles, Monday, 24 September 2012 02:38 (eleven years ago) link
i'd put them in the same order, and i feel the same way!
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Monday, 24 September 2012 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
we're obviously correct then!
― mr.raffles, Monday, 24 September 2012 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
i hope they have some new stuff out soon. it's been almost 2 years. i need my fix.
― billstevejim, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
......no age are you there?
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 02:55 (eleven years ago) link
They’ve recorded 27 tracks thus far and are currently “trying to make sense of it.”
Oh hurry up with it.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
kind of a disappointing new album :/
― illegalblues, Monday, 29 July 2013 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
sounds like a collection of atmospheres
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 July 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i agree. just sounds like a mass of rough sketches
― illegalblues, Monday, 29 July 2013 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
it leaked? c'mon stimmung is fantastic...
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Monday, 29 July 2013 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
the electric sound of floor wax
― IIIrd Datekeeper (contenderizer), Monday, 29 July 2013 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
i really like the instrumentals but i don't like the lower, throaty vocals
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
album is totally a grower. becomes compulsive stuff. another minor winner, i'd say!
― mr.raffles, Monday, 19 August 2013 04:00 (eleven years ago) link
the single is def a grower. i dug a few of the album tracks right away.
― sup (billstevejim), Monday, 19 August 2013 05:17 (eleven years ago) link
hasn't clicked yet. seems awful CLEAR.
― j., Monday, 19 August 2013 05:33 (eleven years ago) link
"lock box" is dope.
― sup (billstevejim), Monday, 19 August 2013 05:42 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Marcus / Xgau - Whose Century? (broom air), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
i like this so far but it does sound like the album a band releases right before it breaks up
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it does sounds like Let It Be
― nostormo, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
it's VERY Tin Drum.
― mr.raffles, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
http://madamepickwickartblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/drum1.jpg
― nostormo, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
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
― mr.raffles, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
they did go somewhere new in this record. and failed imo.
― nostormo, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― mr.raffles, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
the energy is gone, and i think that was at least half of what made them good.
― nostormo, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― mr.raffles, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i know, their "quite" record were never my cup of tea..
― nostormo, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
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/
― xhuxk, Saturday, 14 September 2013 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
i love no age. the new album isn't as good as the others but i still like it
― marcos, Monday, 16 September 2013 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
they haven't broken up, have they?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 01:09 (nine years ago) link
MY LIFE'S ALRIGHT WITHOUT YOU!
― I know, right?, Saturday, October 13, 2007 2:57 PM (7 years ago)
except you
not you guys
― j., Thursday, 20 August 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
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
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Thursday, 20 August 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link
me too! i don't even remember listening to "an object" even though i probably did.
― marcos, Thursday, 20 August 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
it kind of worked better live, but I haven't returned to it much at all.
― campreverb, Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:00 (nine years ago) link
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, 20 August 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
ah, they played a secret show here last month or so, i guess they're still going. glad
― flappy bird, Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link