Album review: No Age – Everything In Between
Rising from the ashes of hardcore punk band Wives, Dean Spunt and Randy Randall formed No Age in 2005. Five years on and with two critically acclaimed under their belts, the duo return with their third album ‘Everything In Between’. Still ostensibly a punk/noise rock band, what I find most interesting about ‘No Age’ is that dig down underneath the layers of noise and feedback, and you have to do some digging, and you’ll find some well crafted slacker pop songs, the kind the Lemonheads were so adept at, with great riffs and it’s this understanding of the need for good tunes underpinning the songs that makes No Age such an exciting proposition.
Of the 13 tracks on ‘Everything In Between’, my favourites are the full throttle rollercoaster rides of ‘Fever Dreaming’ and ‘Shred and Transcend’ purely for the head nodding adrenalin rush, though my neck might disagree with that. Elsewhere on the album ‘Chem Trails’ features vocals reminiscent of Stiff Little Fingers’ Jake Burns There are a couple of tracks that with tighter quality control might not have made the cut, in particular ‘Sorts’ which starts slowly and, though it builds up, doesn’t seem to know where to go. That aside ‘Everything In Between’ is pretty damn good, and best played loud! 4/5
Mark Cousens
Out 27th September on Sub Pop
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