I’ve cared about No Age since the beginning. Few bands sum up punk rock so perfectly for me. No Age manage to capture many different aspects of old and modern music, taking elements of ambient noise, looping and sampling and adding frantic punk riffing, yelling vocals and painstakingly catchy melody.  Despite their recent commercial success thanks to high rated Pitchfork reviews, a Coachella performance, and hilarious Narduwar interviews they are still mostly unknown to the public. I was shocked yesterday to find the hoops one had to jump through to obtain the newest No Age single “In Peril”. I had to take a picture of a picture. Crop it with Microsoft Paint, email said picture to some strange email address, await a reply and follow the link to the Mp3, and finally listen to the song, which was only 37 seconds long. I’m not going to talk about how this made me feel, lets just say I really did enjoy this song. If you’re unfamiliar with No Age, I am now going to introduce them to you:

Get Hurt EP:

This was the first No Age album I purchased, and was the album that turned me on to the band. The first song I heard, which may still be my favourite No Age song “Everybody’s Down”. It’s quite the headbanger once it gets going (haha) and the line “not afraid of laughter” always gives me goose bumps. The intentional lo-fi guitar, which is now so prevalent, was one of the first times I’d ever heard anything like that.

No Age – Everybodys Down

Weirdo Rippers:

Again No Age delivers with a huge album of distortion washed guitars, ambient noise and catchy punk tunes. You find yourself wading through seas of noise waiting for them to pick it up to something more, not exactly wanting more, but hoping for a beat, and when you get that beat, everything feels alright. Check out this gem from the album Weirdo Rippers:

No Age – Neck Escaper

Nouns:

This to me is No Age’s best release. Everything was figured out, and I couldn’t have been happier with it. I feel like a bastard but I downloaded it weeks before it was released, however I did by the CD the day it came out and had it signed at Coachella by the members of No Age. Every song provides the listener with the perfect dose of noise, riffing and beats. I’ll give you two tracks from this masterpiece, I cant choose just one.

No Age – Brain Burner

No Age – Cappo

Losing Feeling EP:

This album came out only a few months ago, and I am notorious for tossing albums on the back burner if they don’t catch me right away. I was hoping for more Nouns or Weirdo Rippers and this album isn’t exactly what I was looking for. It sounds like No Age left the whiskey at home and picked up a few hallucinogens on their way to the studio. As most No Age albums are a cross between ambient soundscapes and punk rock bangers, this album provides almost solely noise songs, only delivering on the classic No Age sound with the song “You’r A Target”. As I mentioned before, I haven’t given this album too much of a listen over, but here is a song I dig thats no the aforementioned single.

No Age – Aim At The Air

and now finally the newest No Age song, I went through all the hoops so you don’t have to! Enjoy, and hopefully I’ve made a fan out of you.

No Age – In Peril

-lionsteeth