SOUNDTRACK: NO AGE-“No Ground” (2013).
I’ve been hearing a lot about No Age lately, but I don’t really know much about them. I keep thinking they are a different, older band (although I can’t think of which one for some reason). Anyhow, this new song from their new album is a simple, propulsive rocker. It starts out with some echoing guitar notes until the fast, fast bass comes in.
It’s followed by some quickly strummed guitars and low sung, almost chanted vocals.
The song feels like it builds speed throughout, although I don’t think it actually does. I didn’t realize that there were only two guys in the band—and that explains their limited musical sound. But unlike a number of other two person bands that I’ve really enjoyed as of late, this song feels a little flat. There is some appeal to it, but overall I want a little bit more.
[READ: June 16, 2013] H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
I have been “into” H.P. Lovecraft for about thirty years. Interestingly, I had never read anything by him in that time. I got into him via Dungeons and Dragons which had a whole selection of monsters from the Cthulhu mythos. And then Metallica did a song called “The Call of Cthulhu” and even though I bought several of his paperback collections and proudly displayed them, I never read them. When McSweeney’s imprint Believer Books published this little title by the practically Lovecraftianly named Michel Houellebecq, I was excited to read it, too (because at this time I had assumed that I had actually read some Lovecraft). But like my Lovecraft books, it languished on the shelf.
Until now.
I decided that it was time to finish off some of those McSweeney’s books that have been sitting on my shelf for years. And this was on the top of my list. (more…)
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