New Music: No Age: "My Life's Alright Without You"
No Age art-punks Randy Randall and Dean Spunt spin out torn-up pop songs that resemble nothing so much as themselves: skateboards by day, gallery space by night, friends in every city, decent weather and good times. Their charisma is their music's appeal.
"My Life's Alright Without You" is deliberate about not smoothing over
all the different strands that make up their (ex-Wives) background: the
feedback that steps on their three-chord pop, the ragged playing that
drags out a tight, pointed song, the sing-along that stops right when
starts. This stuff exists all at once, see? And it's that much more
charming for being unfinished: if you value music above all else as a
soundtrack to life, then you love it most for its everyday flaws.
[from Weirdo Rippers; due 06/11/07 (Europe) and 08/28/07 (U.S.) on FatCat]