And yes, I know, I should change the name of the section and call it the "two" albums of the week instead of just the album, as I'm always including two albums in that section, but I always try to put together two records with things on common. And today, taking into account that these two bands are friends between them, that they've played live together in many occasions, and they've published together in some American labels, maybe is the best excuse ever to join them in this post. Let's say that because apparently, their sound doesn't have many things in common when you listen to both records one after the other. No Age, as you can maybe discover through their name, sound a bit like the N.Y. bands from the beginning of the eighties, the No Wave movement, but with many influences from Noise, Pop, Post-hardcore and Post-rock. They publish this first Long record in Europe through Fat Cat, but have been publishing different EPs in underground American labels during their first year of existence. In the PPM site they define them as "Two parts of Wives make up this new group. Not perfect in the normal sense, but perfect in the sense that they think it is. Pretty and ugly meet somewhere in the middle of punk and art. You will see very soon. One guy broke his neck and had brain surgery, and the other guy got in a car accident and got a lot of money, it kinda sounds like that."
Watch the video for the fast and furious Boy Void:
BARR is a one man project, that requests some help when touring, that finds in the sentence "less is more" a modus operandi of his music. He used to play with Animal Collective before they even had a name and has developed through the years a very personal flow when he recites in his minimal spoken word compositions about his personal experiences. In this record, published some months ago, we can find one of the best songs of the year so far, the single "The song is the single" a meta-song about the song itself.
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