An Object (LP)

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.

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 sand paper 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 ofsound as amaterial 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 rhythmand melody- become relationships between things.