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- Date Released: June 11, 2007
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Label: Fat Cat Records / IODA
LA duo gets back to punk rock basics.
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We Say...
Say "punk" in 2007 and you're more likely to imagine the Warped Tour and X-treme Sports than hopping in a ratty Econoline van to play beer-soaked gigs in po-dunk towns. Luckily, some Los Angelinos converting an old grocery store into an all-ages venue remember punk's heady rush and sought to rekindle that holy fire. No Age, a two-man band of Dean Spunt and Randy Randall spearheaded such a re-appraisal of LA's punk scene, backing it up with Weirdo Rippers, a collection of singles that captures their live energy while also showing the band's debt to "noise" — be it Black Dice, Ramones, My Bloody Valentine or Pavement's earliest singles (who cut their pop with plenty of crackle). What elevated No Age this year were the catchy tunes beneath all that fuzz and distortion, which are so raw, physical and jubilant that they plunk you back in your first mosh pit.
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They Say...
No Age's Weirdo Rippers opens with "Every Artist Needs a Tragedy," a perfect example of the band's very Californian kind of avant noise pop: it coasts in on static that sounds like crashing surf and guitars that drift in with the tide, then kicks into gear with a harshly pretty melody so bright that it glares like midday sun on the sidewalk. Later on, "Neck Escaper" sounds a little like a lost track from Pet Sounds, weathered from being left out on the beach for 40 years. The L.A. gallery punks' early singles find them working within a palette of different kinds of noise, whether it's the blade-like shards of it that slice through "Escarpment," the stuttering, splattering blasts that push "Loosen This Job" forward, or the aptly named "Sun Spots"' waves of distortion, which undulate like heat shimmer. There are a lot of layers to No Age's music on Weirdo Rippers, both literally -- especially on "I Wanna Sleep," where piles of hazy feedback coalesce into drums and chanted vocals that are equally dreamy and wild -- and figuratively: Dean Spunt and Randy Randall list Squeeze, Hüsker Dü, and contemporary painters among their influences, and even when their music is bold, it's rarely simple. No Age are just as likely to thrash out on "Boy Void" as they are to engulf listeners in an abstract wash of sound like the oddly poignant "Semi-Sorted." However, it's when the band splits the difference, as on "My Life's Alright Without You," which intersperses a breezy melody with passages of raw noise, that No Age are most compelling. Their collision of noise, punk, and pop could be contradictory -- and on songs like "Dead Plane," which begins as a roiling cloud of guitar textures, then unfolds into what sounds like a Ramones cover band playing underwater, it's certainly fragmented. Though they focused this mischievous, mysterious allure on Nouns, Weirdo Rippers represents No Age's creativity at its most freewheeling.
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Every Artist Needs a Tragedy |
3:38 |
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| 02. | |
Boy Void |
1:45 |
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| 03. | |
I Wanna Sleep |
2:59 |
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| 04. | |
My Life's Alright Without You |
1:59 |
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| 05. | |
Everybody's Down |
2:20 |
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| 06. | |
Sun Spots |
1:22 |
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| 07. | |
Loosen This Job |
3:40 |
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| 08. | |
Neck Escaper |
2:08 |
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Dead Plane |
4:12 |
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Semi-Sorted |
3:46 |
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Escarpment |
4:01 |
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11 Total Tracks, 31:50 Total Length
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- Pete Lyman - Mastering // Jeremy Weiss - Photography // Claire Weiss - Photography // Amanda Vietta - Cover Painting
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