No Age came onto the scene in 2007 wearing their lo-fi aesthetic proudly on their arms. And from those early EP beginnings, No Age, with assistance from a few other bands, helped to place the spotlight back on lo-fi as a legitimate genre of music, and although some critics may argue the point, I won't. Everything In Between comes as a culmination of sorts, bringing those often indiscernible early lo-fi markers into the light and mixing them up hooks and recognizably catchy melodies, not that those particular aspects weren't in evidence on their earlier records, they just seemed buried to a good degree beneath the music. But No Age have brought themselves up to a par that nobody could have imagined only a few years ago. With songs like "Glitter" or "Fever Dreaming", they've perfectly bridged the distance between the hiss-strewn tracks of their earliest work and the pop-oriented, which it can liberally be called, manners of Nouns and come out with a record of blistering creativity and propulsive songs, which leads me to wonder where they'll end up next.
Tracklisting:
01. Life Prowler
02. Glitter
03. Fever Dreaming (listen to the mp3 below)
04. Depletion
05. Common Heat
06. Skinned
07. Katerpillar
08. Valley Hump Crash
09. Sorts
10. Dusted
11. Positive Amputation
12. Shed And Transcend
13. Chem Trails
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