★★★★★
No Age: An Object (Sub Pop) With drummer-etc. Dean Spunt's vocals mixed up front and enunciated like he means them, you'd think they'd gone pop on us except that, in the great Moore-Ranaldo tradition, pop is well beyond Spunt's manful monotone. But in the same great tradition, he and guitar-wielding Randy Randall are committed to rendering noise as music. Is that a saxophone lowing underneath "C'mon, Stimmung"'s I'm-OK-I'm-OK...
- social.entertainment.msn.com
2013-09-26
★★★★★
Probably the most immediate aspect about noise-rock duo No Age's music is not so much their immediacy (for lack of a better word) but the ability to juxtapose that noise with ambient bliss that never seems to lack intensity. Bands like Deerhunter used to do it more prevalently (see Cryptograms) but throughout Nouns and Everything in Between, No Age has always maintained the ability to coerce loud riffs and explosions by way of dense interludes...
- www.adequacy.net
2013-09-11
★★★★★
No Age - An ObjectRecord Label: Sub Pop
Release Date: August 20, 2013
It's been quite some time since having a cause was the done thing. Whilst the likes of Iceage preach rebellion in a completely apolitical manner, it's obvious that music is no longer a major mouthpiece for the politically disenchanted, the anti-capitalists, the rights activists and the generally angry people who bring about change in our world. No Age are an exception to that rule...
- www.absolutepunk.net
2013-09-10
★★★★★
Release Date: August 20, 2013 It's been quite some time since having a cause was the done thing. Whilst the likes of Iceage preach rebellion in a completely apolitical manner, it's obvious that music is no longer a major mouthpiece for the politically disenchanted, the anti-capitalists, the rights activists and the generally angry people who bring about change in our world. No Age are an exception to that rule...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-09-09
★★★★★
Having to print, assemble and ship 10,000 copies of your own album by hand wouldn't be most artists' idea of a good deal. Noise rock duo, No Age however, insisted to their label, Sub-Pop that they could do just that and once they'd completed their third full length record, An Object, they took the music they'd made by hand, packaged it by hand and mailed it themselves.
As kitschy as this sounds, it's actually quite a fitting send-off for the album itself...
- www.undertheradar.co.nz
2013-09-04
★★★★★
It's hard not to feel caught up in a record as idealistic as An Object. It wants to be venomous, maybe even revolutionary, and at the very least just punk, inviting everyone along except the man, who it has a radar on. A song with as much thrust-forward voltage as "No Ground" would cause the man to put hands over his ears; "Lock Box" folds its arms and tells him he isn't getting in...
- cokemachineglow.com
2013-08-31
★★★★★
After a brief chiming intro, the first track on No Age's new album opens with the kind of blistering, bare bones guitar riffing that fans of the band's previous, tumultuously energetic albums would expect. But about a minute into "No Ground" - just as you're readying yourself for the kind of fractured, frantic chorus the band excels at - something else happens. The song dissolves into a brief, blurry patch of guitar static, then cuts straight into the next verse...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-08-21
★★★★★
Punk, by its very nature, is an experiment. To use the word "experimental" to describe An Object, the latest album from No Age, would be redundant. The L.A. duo, composed of guitarist Randy Randall and vocalist/drummer Dean Allen Spunt, have had just about every label in existence thrown at them. Their music has been referred to everything from "art/pop-punk" to "ambient/noise-rock...
- www.cmj.com
2013-08-22
★★★★★
No Age have made a point of expanding their sound with each release, exploring sonic textures and recording techniques. They've double-mic'ed tracks, meaning sending the mix through a PA system and recording it again, they've recorded in studios where Crass have recorded, and Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy was recorded because "why not?", and basically just done everything they can to achieve new and different sounds...
- www.punknews.org
2013-08-22
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