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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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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 12, 2013A gradual evolution, then, and all the better for it.
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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 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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Aug 23, 2013An Object, as a conceptual aesthetic project, borders on brilliant. Yet the music itself is not immediately captivating.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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 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 19, 2013It’s a difficult album and requires repeated listening for some of the subtler parts to sink in.
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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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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 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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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 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, 2013It's moodier and murkier than No Age albums past, but no less galvanizing.
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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 20, 2013On An Object, their blissy ambient tinkerings finally feel earned and essential.
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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 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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UncutAug 12, 2013A record that's complex, inventive and terrifically free-spirited. [Sep 2013, p.92]
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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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Mixed: 4 out of 15
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Negative: 3 out of 15
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