{"product_id":"no-age-people-helping-people-lp","title":"No Age - People Helping People [LP]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: DC856\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 0781484085614\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 16 Sep 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Indie\/Alternative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e First thought, best thought. Until the next thought: a guiding principle for No Age in the 16ish years they’ve been around. Constantly responding to their own streams of consciousness with reductive flexibility, they’ve taken the basic duo of guitar and drums with vocals way further than anyone listening in halcyon ‘Weirdo Rippers’ days could have guessed. Expounding on those larval possibilities, they’ve zig-zagged in serpentine precision, in and out of the teeth of the wringer - ranging outside and back in again, as befits the present thought. And now, six albums into it, these principles have led them to make ‘People Helping People’. Composed in their studio of ten years in the ‘pre pandemic’ times, then an eviction from said space, and finished deep in the midst at their new basecamp: Randy’s Garage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e It starts with an instrumental, too. Nearly five minutes prelude Dean’s debut vocal interjection - a zoom in from the upper atmosphere, Randy’s guitar clouds pulsing with radiation, paced by spare, percussive accents. When the first song with singing (‘Compact Flashes’) bounces in on an insane synthetic beat, the only recognizable sound of No Age is a sputtering of enchanted clicks and creaks - muted guitar strings and drumkit rattlings that cycle for a full minute before voice song and snare fall into place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e This is the sound of ‘People Helping People’: No Age, deep in the lab, scraping available nuclei together to see what new compound they find next. Erasing the starting points, reordering the pieces and beginning anew. It’s an everyday mindset - and as the first No Age album recorded entirely by No Agee, ‘People Helping People’ is a broadcast of entirely lived-in proportions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Side one ricochets expertly back and forth between magisterial instrumentals and sing-song forms cut up on the mixing desk, as with the undeniable hitness of ‘Plastic (You Want It)’, winningly rewired to MIDI-mangled beat squelches. They don’t really land on a straight up punk-style riff until it’s almost time to flip the side, and even once they’ve got off on a run of rockers on side B, their aesthetic choices continuously reframe the norms, enhancing their inherent power. ‘People Helping People’ finds their disparate desires operating in perfect sync; prolegomenic weirdness fused immaculately to classic rock propulsion, transforming the energy pouring out from their hands and feet with electronics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Dean’s lyrics are like pieces taken off the belt at the factory and put together\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003einto a John Chamberlin-esque sculpture, meant to sit out in the rain. Randy’s guitars, collaged into arrangements that reflect, again, boundless curiosity and exquisite restraint. This is ‘People Helping People’: unpretentious, suspicious, inviting, confident, left field. The most accurate display of the No\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAge ethos put to record. Yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklisting\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYou’re Cooked\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCompact Flashes\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFruit Bat Blunder\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePlastic (You Want It)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInterdependence\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eViolence\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFlutter Freer\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRush To The Pond\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlow Motion Shadow\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlueberry Barefoot\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTripped Out Before Scott\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHeavenly\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAndy Helping Andy\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drag City","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41870056882332,"sku":"DC856","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/1_eaddfe78-b705-4746-b1c7-ffb857ae609a.jpg?v=1661357941","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/no-age-people-helping-people-lp","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}