no age ain’t nuttin but awesum
No Age are an LA fuzz-rock duo specializing in concise little weirdly skewed pop-rock songs, the kind where you can hear the germs of the broader pop experience but it’s so mutated it’s way too easy to miss. And that’s kind of the goal. Reference points abound: most notably Husker Du, especially songs like “Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill” from New Day Rising (for my money Husker’s best moment), but more closely small weirdo bands like the Intelligence (I wrote about them here; p.s. they have a new album coming out in September) and Fat Cat labelmates/fuzzed-out shoegaze masters Xinlisupreme with maybe a little bit of the Ponys’ garage-rock swagger, too. That’s a lot to digest without a lot of easy reference points (is this doing more harm than good?), but the bottom-line is that this is a very good, fucked-up little rock record that I hope ya’ll take a flyer on come Tuesday. Here’s some YouTube:
Is the disc you’re referring to called “Wierdo Rippers,” reviewed in Pitchfork via this link:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/43532-weirdo-rippers
Thanks.
Oh, sorry. It is. Just spotted it on the second video clip.