No Age - Get Hurt (EP)

Review by Mike Diver

While Dean Spunt and Randy Randall last released a record on these shores as two-thirds of the they-showed-up-and-they-broke-up Wives, their current musical concern is a more understated, calmer being than their chaotic punk-rock past might telegraph. As No Age, the Los Angeles-based pair grind shoegaze-esque passages into a mucky pulp with the most sensory befuddling noise this side of a listenable Load Records release. It’s keen to stress that operative word: ‘listenable’...»