No Age
“Depletion”

I’ve gone back and forth over the mixing on the album. And, I mean, it’s possible that this isn’t the final mix. (Possible, but unlikely.) I really like the vocals being distinctly mixed right in the middle, at a lower volume than the guitar, but with enough space around them to render them wholly intelligible. It’s nice, and I’m not sure that some bands (ahem ahem cough cough Best Coast) couldn’t have benefited from a similar approach. You get that lo-fi sound without it being, like, lo-fi-shanking-you-in-the-ears.

This song is rad. It’s a straight-up charger. I’m not sure totally, but it seems like a reasonably radio-ready-type single for the band. It’s got that classic Hollywood tension, and a traditional sort of song structure. No Age reminds me of Animal Collective in that they’re finding a sound and turtling in rather than expanding and assimilating competing sounds. Pretty soon I can tell—like within another two albums—they’re going to have something that everyone else wants to emulate.