I haven't heard enough No Age apart from Boy Void and a few other bits and bobs, BUT: from what i've heard they didnt grab my attention as much as when they where Wives. Are they an intellectual clasic rock band yet? i think i remember reading that was their goal.

how is that a 'new sound'...really now.

which is really good, not very challenging, but really lovely, they sound quite different now.

but they're up there.

And in answer to the question about their sound, think Times New Viking but even more stripped down, and a bit more electronicy. Little less fuzzy though, you can hear the vocals better. They've got an evil sense of humour.

From their myspace:

"I never thought I would find the courage to disgrace a complete scene of music, but shitgaze really is abysmal. Another of these silhouettes of shite is ’Psychedelic Horseshit’, I mean seriously which member of the band was drunk when that name was conjured up. ’New Wave Hippies’ sounds like a toddler playing with something that has thousands of buttons. The guitars are scratchy, and deliberately out of tune. It’s almost as if this band has gone out of its way to completely undermine every musical convention every proposed. This band is either a load of idiots on speed who suddenly thought they could play music while tripping, and sounds like a very massive pile of utter drunken shit, or it’s just some very clever chimpanzee’s who’ve evolved and suddenly realise they ’might’ be able to play some music. In one song, ’Bad Vibrations’ the vocalist literally says over and over again ’ahhoooowaaaooo oooo oooo oooooooo’. I’ve actually given up on summing up this utterly pointless way of life. I would rather shave all of the hair off on my body and commit myself to a life of celibacy and become a neo-Nazi. My flat mate has put this review out of its misery and very kindly summed up this entire music scene in two words, ’utter bollocks’."

http://www.myspace.com/psychedelichorseshit

is it just me or do they sound a bit like a

Ghostland observatory. And I am also digging We Are Standard from Spain.

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& atlases

Good man!

Foals and Fuck Buttons, but I haven't really had a good search for anything new recently. Gunna take a look at some of the stuff in this thread when I get the chance!

new mini album is best thing in ages ...it takes a certain skill to sound that lofi

and Wet Paint
www.myspace.com/wetpaintwetpaint

does anyone have their single? Lightspeed champion cover version pretty neat.

Very 80's, but brilliantly done.