LA based group No Age gives us the the perfect summer record for 2008 a month early. This album is the duo's first full-length, following up 2007's critically acclaimed EP Weirdo Rippers. e got to hear the band's more experimetal side with Weirdo Rippers, and Nouns is a great follow up with coherence that was not present in the EP. You could fit the band's sound within the genre of garage rock, only coming out of LA seems to give the group an edge. We hear sunny guitar riffs and a quality of recording not so typical to garage rock you hear coming out of Memphis. The band consists of two members, a drummer/vocalist and a guitar player. We also hear some intense layering of self recorded samples. The duo aspect gives the band's sound vitality and directness that is refreshing, yet they make us wonder how just two members are able to make this much noise. While some tracks are in keeping with their experimental roots, we also get single-worthy summer tracks like 'Eraser', along with power driven anthems like 'Teen Creeps'. While this is probably the poppiest record we've heard from No Age to date, it is also the most well rounded and fully realized.
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