No Age - Fever Dreaming (Video)

No Age - Everything In Between Details

LA noise punks No Age have a new record coming out September 28.  It's called Everything In Between.

I loved the Losing Feeling EP that No Age released last year.  Very excited to hear their next full length album.  Might move me from a 'casual' fan of the band to 'diehard' fan status.  We'll see.

Here's the tracklisting:

1. Life Prowler
2. Glitter
3. Fever Dreaming
4. Depletion
5. Common Heat
6. Skinned
7. Katerpillar
8. Valley Hump Crash
9. Sorts
10. Dusted
11. Positive Amputation
12. Shed and Transcend
13. Chem Trails

No Age - Everything In Between

LA band No Age have announced details for their next album.  It's gonna be called Everything In Between.  It drops September 28.

Here's the tracklisting:

01) Life Prowler
02) Glitter
03) Fever Dreaming
04) Depletion
05) Common Heat
06) Skinned
07) Katerpillar
08) Valley Hump Crash
09) Sorts
10) Dusted
11) Positive Amputation
12) Shred and Transcend
13) Chem Trails

I had already been a fan of this band after listening to their previous album Nouns, but my favorite work of theirs is actually the Losing Feeling EP they released 'in between' (ugh) albums.

Since my friend Tanya looked at me like I had two heads when I used the term 'EP', to anyone reading who doesn't know, an EP is a music release that's bigger than a single (one song, and then maybe a b-side or two), but too short to be considered an album.  EP stands for 'extended play', while an album is an LP, for 'long-playing'.  Most EPs I've seen have about 4-7 songs on them.  All of this is practically meaningless in the age of the MP3, but I love having a singular body of music that's 15-20 minutes long, when you don't have time/patience to listen to a whole album.

With that lesson out of the way, No Age's Losing Feeling EP is awesome, and you should check it out while awaiting their upcoming full album.

Sup Pop Records: No Age - Losing Feeling

last.fm Artists 21-25

21. Yeasayer - 395 plays
Odd Blood was one of my early favorites of 2k10 albums, and remains one.  "Ambling Alp", "Madder Red", and "O.N.E." are undeniably good.  I was raving about this band for a little while here on this blog.  Their debut All Hour Cymbals is damn fine as well.  Put on a great show at The Guggenheim.

22. Passion Pit - 392 plays
I sure love this brand of electro pop.  This band hits a lot of pleasure centers for me.  I understand how the chipmunk style vocals can be a turnoff for some, but I dig it.  Both their EP Chunk of Change and debut LP Manners are stellar.

23. Dirty Projectors - 366 plays
Bitte Orca was one of 2009's standout albums, and shit, it stood out.  The music seems orchestrated and calculated down to the finest detail, and it's supported by gorgeous female vocals.  I've listened to the previous record Rise Above a fair amount as well.

24. Vampire Weekend - 349 plays
Not sure how I feel about this one.  I wouldn't name Vampire Weekend among my favorite bands.  But I listened to their debut a lot, and it's not like I avoided listening to Contra.  Some of that shit's annoying, but I like "Giving Up the Gun".  So here they are.

25. No Age - 347 plays
I like their most recent work, the Losing Feeling EP, more than anything I've heard from the band thus far.  Nouns is definitely cool, but I've never gotten into it into it.  Excited for a new long player from the band.

EPs of 2009

Some of the year's best music didn't come in albums, but in EPs.  I'm not sure what the strict definition for an EP is exactly, but it's shorter than an album.  The ones I've got here are 3-8 songs long.

An EP can be perfect when you want to listen to a singular body of music, but you don't have the time or the patience to listen to a full album.  Sometimes I'll get in the car and I'll figure that the time of my trip is just about right to listen to one of these.

I think the EP is a good compromise between the ADD nature of our society, where people more often than not just listen to their iPods on shuffle, and the desire for a band/artist to release a piece of music greater than just a single song.  We might see more music released in the form of EPs in the future.

Anyway, a list of my favorite music of the year would be incomplete without mentioning these awesome records.

Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind
Animal Collective had one helluva year.  They started it by releasing the fantastic LP Merriweather Post Pavilion and they ended it by releasing this EP, Fall Be Kind.  The name is a play on the daylight savings time phrase "fall behind", reminding you to set your clocks back one hour (rather than spring forward).  Merriweather Post Pavilion has a very spring/summery feel, and they recorded this as an autumn record.  It's a sweet companion piece to MPP, and the Grateful Dead sampling track "What Would I Want? Sky" is incredible. 

Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange
Bradford Cox's other band Atlas Sound released the full album Logos this year, but with Deerhunter he decided to go the EP route with Rainwater Cassette Exchange.  This honestly might be my favorite Deerhunter record.  The title track starts things off with kind of a surf rock vibe.  "Disappearing Ink" and "Famous Last Words" are bangin' rockin' tunes.  Then it gets mellow with the beautiful "Game of Diamonds".  "Circulation" closes the record with a wall of noise.  Five awesome tracks, no filler.