Last month, when tha dawgg and I visited Rough Trade East, I was intrigued by an album with a cool cover. Of course I passed it up like a dumbass and regretted it almost immediately. I picked it up a couple weeks ago and it’s even better than the cover made it look.
The album was Los Angeles duo No Age’s debut, Nouns. Calling them ‘experimental’ (which they are) makes it sound like they play cardboard boxes and old-school answering machines. They’re not exactly pop, but they’re not unpop. They’re fuzzy, gritty, and a little chaotic – in the kind of catchy way that makes me want to party. No Age does exactly what drummer/vocalist Dean Spunt says a band should do:
“Bands should be fun and exciting and they should push all the buttons at the same time. They should make you feel like you are going to explode and make you utterly confused and inspired at the same time.”
Indeed.
No Age – Here Should Be My Home
Filed under: Music, New Band Day Tagged: | Indie, No Age, Punk
