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Aug 16, 2013The clashes in sound become the very skeletons for the songs, and the songwriting is more fearless and honest than ever before, marking a distinct maturity for No Age and resulting in their best work to date.
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Aug 20, 2013This is the album that might’ve better earned the title Everything in Between, as the songs are composed of scraps, MacGyver tricks achieved with contact mics, bass guitars, and doctored amps. Occasionally, the effort manifests in notable progress.
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UncutAug 12, 2013A record that's complex, inventive and terrifically free-spirited. [Sep 2013, p.92]
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Aug 21, 2013It’s not quite clear yet whether No Age really know what kind of music they want to make, or how to make it.
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MojoAug 12, 2013Even on a transitional work, No Age's spirit of adventure is its own reward. [Sep 2013, p.89]
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Q MagazineJan 27, 2014With songs this weak, Randall's Norfolk-flat voice has nowhere to hide. [Oct 2013, p.107]
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Aug 19, 2013It’s a difficult album and requires repeated listening for some of the subtler parts to sink in.
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Aug 20, 2013It's moodier and murkier than No Age albums past, but no less galvanizing.
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Aug 16, 2013The lack of drums on large chunks of An Object initially gives the feeling that the album is lacking an anchor, but when the band explore the shimmering noise cosmos of closing track Commerce, Comment, Commence they sound expansive and exquisite, something that their more forthright punk approach can’t hope to achieve.
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Aug 20, 2013There's always an undercurrent of sputtering, beat-up electronics running through No Age's music, and when the arrangements are roped in from shoegaze atmospherics, these jump forward and dominate the album's texture.
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Aug 15, 2013They don't half make liberation and self-dependency sound miserable.
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Aug 16, 2013The sparse chug of "Defector/ed" and the dirge-y mantra of "A Ceiling Dreams of a Floor" reflect the rough-hewn elegance of the duo's raw musical material.
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Aug 15, 2013On An Object, No Age push their weakest attributes firmly into the spotlight; a move indirectly admirable for its continued ambition, but one which makes you wish they’d go back to being punk rock, rather than just punk.
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Aug 20, 2013An Object is never too jarring, nor too abrasive, nor too sedate, nor too conventional. But No Age’s best work is rapid-fire indulgence in all of these excesses, riveting in its erratic unpredictability and sense of urgency.
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Aug 16, 2013Most of the music is fiercely restrained, characterized by short songs, skeletal atmospheres, and performances that have a mechanistic, flatlined intensity. Bad? No, but stiff, and sapped of the dynamism the twosome seemed to come by so naturally in the past.
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Aug 16, 2013It’s pretty hard to deny that No Age make a damn good off-kilter rock record, and that’s a pretty good idea in itself.
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Aug 20, 2013The only thing that could make An Object better is a guarantee these determined minimalists won’t leave us with zero next time out.
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Aug 23, 2013An Object, as a conceptual aesthetic project, borders on brilliant. Yet the music itself is not immediately captivating.
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Aug 12, 2013A gradual evolution, then, and all the better for it.
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Aug 12, 2013While there are times when the band seems complacent, they still have plenty of sounds left to explore and destroy.
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Aug 15, 2013Musing on “perfected harmonies” while unexpected string sections peer into the foreground, we’re witnessing a group confident enough to start afresh while giving forceful nods to their celebrated past.
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Alternative PressAug 12, 2013An Object is another great volume in the experimental duo's catalog that feels more colossal than their comparatively small eight years together. [Sep 2013, p.90]
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Aug 15, 2013It sounds like a labor of love through and through, and its painstaking process of development only augments a desire for something exclusive. In all accounts, your satisfaction is most certainly guaranteed.
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MagnetSep 25, 2013Even the twosome's weakest album has undeniable substance in its slow burn. Don't call the Yes Age just yet. [No. 102, p.58]
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Aug 21, 2013There may be no dramatic leaps in style from No Age, yet there also doesn't seem to be any requirement for them. An Object is the refining of a formula that remains open to play and experiment, without adopting a slash-and-burn policy to all previous outings.
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Aug 19, 2013As soon as the first bright notes of An Object wave you over to the album’s distorted incandescence, you realize that something is going on.
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Aug 30, 2013An Object scales back the ambitious and ostensibly ambient sound of Everything in Between (2010), but it remains gloomily meditative.
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Sep 11, 2013An album that finds them further exploring the depths of their palettes with another worthy album of expressive highs.
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Oct 25, 2013No Age has made an album devoid of joy, yet I couldn’t help but smile when listening to it.
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Sep 9, 2013Yes, the lack of production and general scuzziness of the record is reminiscent of what we’d like to hear from No Age, but aside from this the music lacks excitement and inspiration.
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Aug 20, 2013No Age may not have delivered another knockout, but An Object compensates for its shortcomings by being a mature and often moving album, a first for the duo.
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Aug 21, 2013The album seems like it had the fat trimmed off in the studio and leaves the listener with a leaner-than-usual, but still enjoyable production. You’ll leave feeling full, but not stuffed.
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Aug 22, 2013I think An Object battles Everything In Between for best No Age album, and while I think Object contains even more interesting musical elements, Everything had more hooks.
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Aug 20, 2013On An Object, their blissy ambient tinkerings finally feel earned and essential.
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Sep 25, 2013There's a pleasure on the far edge of song in imagining that two DIY purists are making all these musical noises with their guitar collection and their home studio.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 15
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Mixed: 4 out of 15
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Negative: 3 out of 15
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