{"id":7922,"date":"2013-10-29T15:42:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T15:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=7922"},"modified":"2013-10-29T15:42:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T15:42:57","slug":"no-age-an-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/10\/29\/no-age-an-object\/","title":{"rendered":"No Age &#8211; An Object"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/10\/29\/no-age-an-object\/no-age-an-object\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7923\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7923\" alt=\"No-Age-An-Object\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/No-Age-An-Object-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey, wanna hear a pithy, one-sentence review of this album?<!--more--> Here goes: No Age? More like Japandroids! Because, you know, they\u2019re a two piece, and they\u2019re kind of noisy, and they\u2019re playing vaguely anthemic music? You know, I was ready to snarkily compare this album to a microwaved version of Post-Nothing, but the buzzy hardcore-by-way-of-Mission of Burma\/shoegaze \u201cI Won\u2019t Be Your Generator\u201d shows they can actually write tunes you can sing along with. \u201cC\u2019mon Stimmung\u201d is another thrashy number with antagonistic us-vs-them lyrics, which for some reason was released early to hype the album up. Throughout, No Age attempt to rein in their weirdo qualities, with mixed results. Sure, the trebly guitar scraping on \u201cDefector\/Ed\u201d&#8221; is pretty cool, but it\u2019s not enough to carry a three minute pop song. \u201cAn Impression\u201d does a somewhat better job with its contact-mic-produced percussion, but the backing track with its guitar arpeggios isn\u2019t nearly beefy enough to support the monotone melody. The dour mood that runs through the album works on \u201cRunning From A-Go-Go,\u201d a drab ode to the worse aspects of touring, \u00a0and \u201cA Ceiling Dreams of a Floor\u201d is a droney ballad vaguely reminiscent of Swervedriver\u2019s poppier work. Hopefully the members of No Age can improve their songwriting chops for the next release. Better luck next time, boys. (Sub Pop, <a href=\"http:\/\/subpop.com\" target=\"_blank\">subpop.com<\/a>)<b id=\"docs-internal-guid-10b729fd-eb5a-f085-a3c6-2af85243f22b\"> Topher Duguay<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, wanna hear a pithy, one-sentence review of this album?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[915],"class_list":["post-7922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-sub-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}