You Look At Me Like This Shit Right Here Is Something New

No Age are for the children

No Age, along with fellow noise terroir-ists HEALTH, are defining a new avant-punk/hardcore scene out in Los Angeles; not only are they defining it, but unlike a great many of their uncharitable/too-cool-for-school East Coast (code for: Brooklyn) brethren, they're embracing it. The actual music is a gooey low-fi racket, bouncing between recognizable, if de-tuned, pop-punk and shoegazey electronic distortion: Weirdo Rippers, their debut album (really a compilation of vinyl-only EPs), is virtually schizophrenic in this regard, often within the same song (see opener "Every Artist Needs a Tragedy" and cover "Dead Plane"). Their work holds great promise; God knows the world could use another Zen Arcade.

"Let It Rip", Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker, 11/19
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