Description

With the world around us bruised and bloodied with teeth alreadydug into the concrete curb, we fi nd ourselves with the shadow ofa large boot looming overhead. What better time for No Age? Remember,they are the ones who fi rst brought you the hospital-bedfeel-good-anthem, Get Hurt (2007). They know how to ecstaticallyrage and power on thru pain, because what else are you gonna do?The future belongs to the cockroaches, and this record is made forthe disparate band of misfits who 2017 couldnt kill.

Yeah. New No Age! Not new age No Age (except for the odd SunSpots/Keechie-style shimmer that only ever makes everythingbetter), but defi nitely an age of album-making located somewherebeyond and back from where we last heard em in aught-13,when theyd wrapped their process in as much deconstructionas An Object could bear. Reimagined rippers, compellingever forward; something that provokes challenges on theear that was always the goal, but after a few yearsspent not No Age-ing, just working on that thingcalled life, is it any wonder that Dean and Randywanted to pump out some rock and roll for theblack hole? Does time mean nothing to you?Dont answer that.

Snares Like a Haircut sounds like thegood shit, and smells like the buzzyburning off of an aura, the marine layersuddenly vanished, leaving a thinlayer of smog over the songs, simmeringsock gazing tunes, revved and displacing enormous amountsof sound soil. This is pure driving music, for the bus racer and thecar driver, with too many signs, bells and little lites flashing, tickingaway. This is a record for the Foothill and the Valley, with a chemicalsunset flowering at the end of every day. Its a feeling made by drivingmusic for driving music.

Recorded in a few days and mixed forever, Snares Like a Haircutfinds No Age in full on mode, because there was nothing else to dobut go full on. In the songs inside the songs, the thumpy/thwappydrums, the desperately voiced paens to determination, the churningand the stinging-but-shiny fuck-it built into the structure, a promisefrom the 1980s echoes once again across today, for the undeterminedin-between generation reality seekers.

With Snares Like a Haircut, No Age scrub the itch in the littlemoments, engage actively with the process and carve/plaster/shavesomething in an album shape thatll last.

You dont have to drive, but you cant stay here. Let No Age do all thedriving for you. Snares Like a Haircut.