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No Age - Snares Like a Haircut

Review by Marc Burrows

You’ll just be glad it exists. If, that is, it exists at all»

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Los Angeles punk duo No Age release a new album called Snares Like A Haircut - their first new album in over four years after 2013’s An Object. Reimagined rippers, compelling ever forward; something that provokes challenges on the ear—that was always the goal, but after a few years spent not No Age-ing, just working on that thing called life, is it any wonder that Dean and Randy wanted to pump out some rock and roll for the black hole? Does time mean nothing to you? Snares Like a Haircut sounds like the good shit, and smells like the buzzy burning off of an aura, the marine lay- er suddenly vanished, leaving a thin layer of smog over the songs, simmering sock gazing tunes, revved and displacing enormous amounts away. This is a record for the Foothill and the Valley, with a chemical sunset flowering at the end of every day. It’s a feeling made by driving music for driving music. Recorded in a few days and mixed forever, Snares Like a Haircut finds No Age in full on mode, because there was nothing else to do but go full on. In the songs inside the songs, the thumpy / thwappy drums, the desperately voiced paens to determination, the churning and the stinging-but-shiny fuck-it built into the structure, a promise from the 1980s echoes once again across today, for the undetermined in-between generation reality seekers.
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