No Age
Everything In Beetween

THE REVIEW

Do you know those people who lived in the '70s and claim that today's music sucks and doesn't add anything new? Well, this CD is a kick in the balls for those gentlemen.

But who the hell are these No Age, you might be wondering eagerly? In short, No Age is a duo from LA composed of Randy Randall and Dean Allen Spunt, who grew up in the DIY scene of the west coast. They quickly became known and appreciated with their first album Nouns, thanks to their original mix of Noise, Pop, and Shoegaze.

Now let's get to the album in question, Everything In Between is a hybrid: the clandestine meeting between the typical sounds of American indie and the guitar riffs typical of the English scene derived from The Jesus & Mary Chain. From the very first track, you realize the stylistic hallmark of the duo: an intro that seems to reference The End by The Doors on top of which a fuzz guitar that tears you in half is overlayed and supported by various loops; then there are tracks like Glitter, which opens with a drum machine soon gracefully joined by a guitar riff that recalls the more dreamy My Bloody Valentine.

Then there are pieces like Depletion or Valley Hump Crash that leave you astonished at how well the duo can rework and make their own the heritage of bands like Nirvana and Hüsker Dü; the remaining tracks still settle at excellent levels and demonstrate the compositional growth of this group, which in this album has enriched its sound with drum machine, loops, background noises, and with greater attention to the vocals.

I therefore recommend this CD to you, which demonstrates that even in 2010, there are still people with something to say.