Posts Tagged ‘No Age’

28.12.2009

Rich’s Best of 2009

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Rich Duncan – SAL contributor

Albums
Rapid Cities “Machinery Saints”
Touch Committee “Winter Beard”
Native “Wrestling Moves”
Japandroids “Post-Nothing”
An Horse “Rearrange Beds”
Gray Young “Firmament”
Golden City “Self-titled”
Empire! Empire! (I was a lonely estate) “What It Takes To Move Forward”
Double Dagger “More”
Daitro “Y”
Communipaw “Self-Titled”
Caspian “Tertia”
Brian Bond “Fire & Gold”
Brainworms “Swear To Me”
Annabel “Each and Everyone”

EPs
Snowing “Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit”
No Age “Losing Feeling”
Certain People I Know “4 Songs”
Weed Hounds “Demo”
Dude Japan “Demo”
Victor! Fix The Sun “Person Place or Thing”

10.12.2008

Alex’s Top Ten

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Alex – Wild Years – Ann Arbor, Michigan

1.     Dr. Dog – Fate
2.     Ohtis – If this County Had A Heart, That’s Where I was Born
3.     Bonnie Prince Billy – Lie Down in The Light
4.     Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks – Real Emotional Trash
5.     No Age – Nouns
6.     Fred Thomas – Flood
7.     NOMO – Ghost Rock
8.     Animal Collective – Water Curses EP
9.     Beach House – Devotion
10.   Mason Proper – Olly Oxen Free

Tags: Animal Collective, Beach House, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Dr. Dog, Fred Thomas, Mason Proper, No Age, NOMO, Ohtis, Stephen Malkmus, Wild Years, Year End Lists

08.12.2008

Ben’s Top Ten Songs of 2008

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Ben Hendricks – Annabel – Kent, Ohio

1. The Twilight Sad – “Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did.”
2. Dinomania – “Text Messages”
3. Death Cab for Cutie – “Cath…”
4. M83 – “Kim & Jesse”
5. Tin Armor – “The Roof and the Rod”
6. See Urchin – “To Be Yours”
7. The Notwist – “Boneless”
8. Des Ark – “Two Hearts are Better Than One”
9. No Age – “Teen Creeps/Things I Did When I Was Dead”
10. Cheap Girls – “Kind of on Purpose”

Tags: Annabel, Beartrap, Cheap Girls, Death Cab For Cutie, Des Ark, Dinomania, M83, No Age, See Urchin, The Notwist, The Twilight Sad, Tin Armor, Year End Lists

26.09.2008

Women: Self-Titled

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Where does one even start with such a complex band like Women? The band recorded their debut with Sub Pop artist Chad VanGaalen “over 4 months on ghettoblasters and old tape machines in his basement, an outdoor culvert and a crawlspace.” Perhaps those environments inspire the radically varied style of the album. The band moves rather freely from spacious pop to heavy drones of noise and feedback. Much like VanGaalen’s work, the band has a lo-fi, schizophrenic character to their music.

The tightrope between noise and beauty is one that has been walked several times this year and Women try their hand at it as well. And they perform the duties rather admirably and compare favorably to a band like No Age. With years of playing together, Women have hashed out a remarkable precision and an almost polished, yet sloppy approach. It is a dynamic that should not be taken lightly. The band just signed on with well-known indie, Jagjaguwar, to re-release this album. So, I imagine you will be hearing a lot about Women in the next few months and that is for good reason. Women should have all the indie boys and girls swooning (or whatever it is that they do).

Genre: Indie/Experimental

RIYL: Animal Collective, No Age, Chad VanGaalen

Label: Flemish Eye/Jagjaguwar

Black Rice

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www.myspace.com/womenmusic

Tags: Animal Collective, Chad VanGaalen, Jagjaguwar, Music Reviews, No Age, Sub Pop, Women

27.06.2008

No Age: Nouns

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Along with Fuck Buttons album, Street Horrrsing, you can chalk No Age’s Nouns up as 2008’s biggest out of left field surprises for me. Los Angeles’ No Age burst onto the scene in 2007 with their release, Weirdo Rippers. The album gathered the band’s early singles but despite the buzz, No Age were never embraced by these ears no matter how hard I listened. On Nouns though, something remarkable happens as the band stretches their range. No Age have incorporated and embraced melody into their songs like never before. Perhaps it was a conscience move on the band’s part or maybe it had something to do with their subsequent move to Sub Pop (which I am sure came with bigger budgets/studios). Either way, Nouns sees the band reaching farther than their usual brand of lo-fi drum and guitar hiss and the band pulls it off more times than not. Nouns is fuller and an overall more satisfying affair for the band and the listener. Sure you can portray this as the usual constant struggle between noise and melody but on Nouns it is apparent which faction has finally won out. In the end No Age are creating nothing more than pop music bathed in fuzz. And Nouns sounds like a joyful noise to these ears.

Genre: Indie/Noise/Rock

RIYL: Times New Viking, Husker Du, Parts & Labor

Label: Sub Pop

Eraser

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www.myspace.com/nonoage

Tags: Fuck Buttons, Hüsker Dü, Music Reviews, No Age, Parts & Labor, Times New Viking

22.04.2008