Name: An Object
Brand: No Age

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

sp1041

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2013-08-19

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Supplier GB

PIAS

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0098787104110

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

spcd1041

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0098787104127

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

No Age

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Sub Pop

With 'An Object', their fourth full-length album, No Age has forgone the straight and narrow route, landing in a strange and unexpected place, feet planted in fresh, fertile soil. This new LP finds drummer / vocalist Dean Spunt exploding from behind his kit, landing percussive blows with amplified contact mics, 4-string bass guitars, and prepared speakers, as well as traditional forms of lumber and metal. Meanwhile, guitarist Randy Randall corrals his previously lush, spastic, sprawling arrangements into taught, refined, rats' nests. Lyrically Spunt challenges space, fracturing ideological forms and complacency, creating a striking new perspective that reveals thematic preoccupations with structural ruptures and temporal limits. As the title 'An Object' suggests, these eleven tracks are meant to be grasped, not simply heard. Whether in the fine grit of Randall's sandpaper guitar scrapes on 'Defector/ed,' or Spunt's percussive stomp and crack on 'Circling with Dizzy' and 'An Impression,' these are songs that pivot on the sheer materiality of music-making, incorporating the process every step of the way. Still, this is hardly a work of avant garde noise music. These songs are hummable, political, recognizably rooted in underground rock, and informed by an understanding of sound as a material to be shaped, handled, and worked over. It is an aesthetic in which the relationships between guitar, percussion, and vocals - as well as those between rhythm and melody—become relationships between things. These relationships are built into 'An Object' at every level. In collaboration with friend and Grammy-nominated designer Brian Roettinger (5 E.P.'s, Nouns, Losing Feeling, Everything In Between), the band prepared and assembled the physical packaging of An Object, including jackets, inserts, and labels, fusing the roles of manufacturer, artist, and musician into one. It is this sense of the total work of art that underlines An Object as the culmination of two years of touring, writing, and performing, finding No Age moving into new terrain at the height of their powers. 'An Object' was recorded by longtime No Age collaborator Facundo Bermudez and No Age at Gaucho's Electronics in Los Angeles.Vinyl is Limited edition coloured vinyl loser edition.

An Object

Music GB