Sasha Frere-Jones has been reading the blogs lately. His last New Yorker article was on Animal Collective and this week he profiles No Age! Here's what he says:

This enthusiasm is impressive, given that No Age’s music is not instantly inviting. Listening to the album is a bit like entering a cave; it takes a few moments to acclimate your senses to No Age’s methods. The band has no bass player, and Randall’s guitar often sounds hazy and thick, with echoey effects. He tends to process his notes electronically, using pedals to inflate chords into sheets of glimmering noise that evoke the overwhelmingly distorted sound of bands like My Bloody Valentine and the Jesus and Mary Chain. Spunt’s drumming and delivery is blunt, reminiscent of L.A. punk rock from the eighties, which scorned pretension.

The band recently signed to Sub Pop, the independent Seattle label that released Nirvana’s early records; its current groups include the Shins and the Postal Service, both of which sometimes outsell major-label acts.

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