{"title":"No Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo Age is an American experimental punk duo that was founded in 2005 in Los Angeles. Known for their unique blend of punk and experimental sounds, they have established themselves as a prominent figure in the music scene. With influences ranging from *Women* to *Crystal Stilts*, their music pushes boundaries and challenges traditional genres. Their energetic live performances and raw, unfiltered lyrics have captivated audiences worldwide. If you're a fan of innovative and boundary-pushing music, No Age is definitely an artist worth checking out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSimilar artists to No Age include *Times New Viking*, *Japanther*, *Japandroids*, and more. These artists share a similar passion for experimentation and pushing the limits of their respective genres. Whether you're into punk, indie rock, or just looking for something new and exciting, exploring these artists will surely satisfy your musical cravings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExperience the captivating sounds of No Age today and discover why they are considered one of the most influential experimental punk duos of our time. From their early beginnings in Los Angeles to their current status as pioneers in the music industry, No Age continues to inspire with their fearless approach to creating art through sound.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"nouns","title":"Nouns","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe duo of Dean Spunt (drums and vocals) and Randy Randall (guitar) are proudly noisy, drawing influence from early-'90s lo-fi acts like Eric's Trip as well as the New Zealand sound of that decade. They make no attempt to clean up their sound (though it does seem slightly more professionally recorded than the singles that made up their first release, Weirdo Rippers) as amps hum, drums clatter like garbage cans, and voices shout and holler. It's an arresting amount of noise and it may put you off initially. If you stick with it past the first wave of fuzz, though, you'll be captured by the songs, because No Age aren't about noise alone. Below that less than pristine (to be kind) sound there are songs. There are no simple love songs here -- mostly twisted fragments of isolation and ruin with the (very) occasional bit of tender hope thrown in to keep you from throwing in the towel. In the final count, melody and beauty, fractured as they may be, win the day. Like fellow noise poppers Times New Viking did on their awesome album Rip It Off, No Age turn noise into gold on Nouns. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sub Pop","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50448175628619,"sku":"298089","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/5cd2ef36-7e5a-473a-a3cd-10eee93ebba6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727087417"},{"product_id":"an-object","title":"An Object","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith 'An Object', their fourth full-length album, No Age has forgone the straight and narrow route, landing in a strange and unexpected place, feet planted in fresh, fertile soil. This new LP finds drummer \/ vocalist Dean Spunt exploding from behind his kit, landing percussive blows with amplified contact mics, 4-string bass guitars, and prepared speakers, as well as traditional forms of lumber and metal. Meanwhile, guitarist Randy Randall corrals his previously lush, spastic, sprawling arrangements into taught, refined, rats' nests. Lyrically Spunt challenges space, fracturing ideological forms and complacency, creating a striking new perspective that reveals thematic preoccupations with structural ruptures and temporal limits. As the title 'An Object' suggests, these eleven tracks are meant to be grasped, not simply heard. Whether in the fine grit of Randall's sandpaper guitar scrapes on 'Defector\/ed,' or Spunt's percussive stomp and crack on 'Circling with Dizzy' and 'An Impression,' these are songs that pivot on the sheer materiality of music-making, incorporating the process every step of the way. Still, this is hardly a work of avant garde noise music. These songs are hummable, political, recognizably rooted in underground rock, and informed by an understanding of sound as a material to be shaped, handled, and worked over. It is an aesthetic in which the relationships between guitar, percussion, and vocals - as well as those between rhythm and melody—become relationships between things. These relationships are built into 'An Object' at every level. In collaboration with friend and Grammy-nominated designer Brian Roettinger (5 E.P.'s, Nouns, Losing Feeling, Everything In Between), the band prepared and assembled the physical packaging of An Object, including jackets, inserts, and labels, fusing the roles of manufacturer, artist, and musician into one. It is this sense of the total work of art that underlines An Object as the culmination of two years of touring, writing, and performing, finding No Age moving into new terrain at the height of their powers. 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There's a few of them lacing through the album sequence, visiting the far spheres of their imagination. Like with \"Andy Helping Andy\"— a zoom in from the upper atmosphere, Randy Randall's guitar clouds pulsing with radiation, paced by Dean Spunt's spare, percussive accents. Their exquisite version of ambient punk: elegantly corroded, like \u003ci\u003eLoveless\u003c\/i\u003e-era MBV (and even more wordless!), with snips and loops as disembodied DIY techno percussion pound units of infinite time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is (only part of) the sound of \u003ci\u003ePeople Helping People\u003c\/i\u003e: No Age, deep in the lab, scraping available nuclii together to see what new compound they find next. Erasing the starting points, reordering the pieces and beginning anew. It’s an everyday mindset — and as the first No Age album recorded entirely by No Age, \u003ci\u003ePeople Helping People\u003c\/i\u003e is a broadcast of entirely lived-in proportions. 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Does time mean nothing to you? \u003ci\u003eSnares Like a Haircut\u003c\/i\u003e sounds like the good shit, and smells like the buzzy burning off of an aura, the marine lay- er suddenly vanished, leaving a thin layer of smog over the songs, simmering sock gazing tunes, revved and displacing enormous amounts away. This is a record for the Foothill and the Valley, with a chemical sunset flowering at the end of every day. It’s a feeling made by driving music for driving music. Recorded in a few days and mixed forever, \u003ci\u003eSnares Like a Haircut \u003c\/i\u003efinds No Age in full on mode, because there was nothing else to do but go full on. 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