I haven’t heard a geetar album that was this bomb since Wavves put out the post-meltdown King of the Beach earlier in the summer. Eeek, even mentioning the meltdown gives me shivers, you don’t understand, it was very traumatic.

Anyway, I don’t know what I expected from No Age’s latest album “Everything In Between”, but whatever it was, it certainly wasn’t what I heard on the album.

No Age will get put in the box of lo-fi, indie, noise rock etc etc, there’s no doubt about that. But this album manages to be something else entirely while still retaining that garage indie edge.

It just seems....deeper.

And a lot more deliberate. It sounds so full for being a two person project. It’s got its fast, more punk sounding tracks and moments, but  it also has its ambient more electronic sounding bits. There were times while listening that I thought I had switched artists, seriously!

The best thing about it is that it has a sense of subtlety which makes for this more meaningful feeling while listening. 

I could probably put this album on and listen through while lying on my floor, doing nothing else - no laptop or xbox. Something I haven’t done since I stole my parents old vinyl and put DEVO on at the wrong speed.

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