Snares Like a Haircut

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AlbumJan 26 / 201812 songs, 39m 18s
Noise Pop Indie Rock
Popular Highly Rated

Rock and roll for the black hole - reimagined rippers, for the misfits that 2017 couldn't kill to blast under the shadow of the big boot and beyond the glow of the chemical horizon. This is driving music, and you're the designated shotgun rider - get in!

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8.0 / 10

The noise-rock duo’s fifth album is a fresh and clear-eyed statement, drawing most from punk’s impulse towards attentiveness and honesty.

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Nils Frahm reaches exciting new dimensions on All Melody, while No Age go bigger and brighter than ever on Snares Like A Haircut. These, plus Tribulation and Nightmares On Wax in this week’s notable new releases.

7 / 10

8 / 10

The Los Angeles duo interrupt their most recent hiatus sounding comfortable in their own skin.

8.8 / 10

Sharper and brighter than ever.

After making an album, An Object, that felt like the perfect culmination of their freaked-out noise, gummy pop inclinations, and ambient fuzz experiments, No Age came to a fork in the road.

A quick, understated collection of pop songs, the latest No Age album Snares Like a Haircut is inventive without deviating from the band’s formula.

7 / 10

No Age make music you don't so much consume as become acclimated to.   For over a decade, the L.A. art punks have crafted hazy, wondrous a...

7.5 / 10

Having taken their longest break between albums, the unbound Los Angeles noise rockers No Age have leapt back from the void, while simultaneously filling one.

5 / 10

'Snares Like A Haircut' is another urgent and righteously angry album from No Age that's no-nonsense but also no evolution.

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Snares Like a Haircut is reinvigorating in the best ways.

8 / 10