NO AGE

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

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