No Age - “Weirdo Rippers”
No Age Weirdo Rippers 2007. 3 stars.
What the hell is a Weirdo Ripper? Perhaps its a loose moniker for No Age’s surreal brand of punk rock, relishing in lo-fi noisiness and ambient textures. If I were to make a rock equation, No Age’s first LP is a combination of scrappy slacker rock like Pavement and Sebadoh with the hazy ambient of Deerhunter, making for a listening experience that is strange and obtuse yet ultimately satisfying in its concision.
The overall tone of Weirdo Rippers is one of restrained excitement, where the band is conscious of their revolutionary artistic potential but is ultimately limited by their lack of technical savvy and thin production values. Still, the lo-fi element is probably what makes this work so unique and appealing in a market saturated by punk bands overcome by their devastating sameness. The roughness of it all has a certain charm to it, like the derelict building on the cover.
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