Trolling Andy

As "Nasty K" likes to make clear to anyone who will listen, he hates No Age. And so do I. Or, rather, I did, until I heard "Glitter" (off their new album Everything in Between). No Age's strength has always been their ability to craft pretty interesting sonic textures. The problem has been that they don't really do anything with them - texture 1 goes for a while, and then texture 2 goes (but it's a little louder, and the dynamic shift apparently constitutes songwriting).

But, lo and behold, the band has now decided that they aren't too cool for regular song structure. Bridges! Choruses! Verses! Evidence that No Age have actually thought about how to fit their array of cool sounds into an audience-pleasing framework instead of just vomiting out doodles onto record! And it's actually pleasurable to hear those cool sounds - an opening glam-rock drum-stomp (is the title a homage to famed pedophile Gary?), the interplay of squalling guitars and mellow bass - when the song that contains them involves more than grinding repetition. It's enough to make this one-time hater want to listen to the whole album.