{"id":6491,"date":"2018-01-31T13:02:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T18:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=6491"},"modified":"2018-02-07T12:42:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:42:38","slug":"no-age-snares-like-a-haircut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/no-age-snares-like-a-haircut\/","title":{"rendered":"No Age <br>Snares Like a Haircut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Snares-Like-A-Haircut.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6493\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Snares-Like-A-Haircut.jpg\" alt=\"No Age, Snares Like a Haircut\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Snares-Like-A-Haircut.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Snares-Like-A-Haircut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>A key variable in No Age\u2019s work has been the number and depth of the layers they use to separate listeners from the impetus at the center of their songs. My own bias is for the extremes. I turn it up for direct statements like \u201cTeen Creeps\u201d (from <i>Nouns<\/i>) and \u201cFever Dreaming\u201d (from <i>Everything In Between<\/i>), but also for blurry expressions like \u201cSemi-Sorted\u201d (from <i>Weirdo Rippers<\/i>) and \u201cThings I Did When When I Was Dead\u201d (<i>Nouns<\/i>.) If you\u2019re like me, then, you found <i>An Object<\/i>, their last proper release, strangely unsatisfying, since it spent most of its time in the middle-ground.<\/p>\n<p>On <i>Snares Like a Haircut<\/i> (Drag City Records), there\u2019s a relentless film of noise and grime over everything, but the records starts out bright and melodic, almost sunny, even. It\u2019s more California garage-rock than bratty punk bluster. But those crisp sonic blueprints are matched with ambivalent themes. A reflection of the times? A recognition of the ambiguity of growing up? There are questions all over this record. \u201cSend Me\u201d is straightforward at first, with an opening refrain of \u201cSend me, I said send me,\u201d but unsure the rest of the way, asking, \u201cWhere should I go? Maybe across the sea, but that don\u2019t quite feel right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After a brief instrumental (the title track), the second third of the record turns darker and aggressive. Thematically, it\u2019s more pessimistic. \u201cTidal\u201d is a straight-ahead rocker about inescapable bitterness. \u201cSoft Collar Fad\u201d is a gloriously raucous way to flip a middle finger at people who won\u2019t mind their own business. \u201cPopper\u201d and \u201cSecret Swamp\u201d are similarly impassioned, but are full of apathetic lines like, \u201cIt\u2019s easy not to care\u201d and \u201cI\u2019ve got a lot to offer, I don\u2019t think I should bother.\u201d After another instrumental, the last couple of tracks offer the mid-tempo haze that <i>An Object<\/i> had in (over-)abundance, and after the determined stride of the first 10 tracks, they are an inviting and appropriate comedown.<\/p>\n<p>The words on this record words don\u2019t offer many clues to what has No Age so fired up, but they sound determined to get some stuff off their chests, remind everyone that they can tear shit up, and add a few new sounds to their catalog. This is a thrilling record, an exhausting listen, and a rousing reminder of how vital this pair of weirdos really is.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key variable in No Age\u2019s work has been the number and depth of the layers they use to separate listeners from the impetus at the center of their songs. 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