jueves, 3 de julio de 2008

No Age

This might be a few days old, but it's still worth updating for. Chances are, if you saw the FNMTV premier last Friday, you saw a Noise-Pop, Noise-Rock, Experimental Rock, and a Punk Rock band called 'No Age' releasing their first music video (Am I right or am I wrong here?). Now this band is undoubly getting thousands of positive reviews from professional sources, and I can't blame them, because they produce an excellent sound. But I'll be talking on my opinion of their newest music video 'Eraser'.




Let's talk a bit about the band, shall we? No Age is a band founded in Los Angeles, currently signed in with Sub Pub records. The band has two members, these being Randy Rallan (Guitarist) and Dean Allen Spunt (Drummer and Vocals). They're associated with the band 'Wives' and they've released 8 albums, 3 of them being completely EP's. However, undoublty, the most famous album of all is their newest album: 'Nouns'.

Their Music video 'Eraser' is a low-budget video made with a lot of artistic-like effects. Which you have to give them props, because their video was undoubtly creative unlike other low-budget music videos. However, something quite frustrating from 'Eraser' is how the video is carried along.

The Video starts with the two band members running around in a child-themed party within the non-vocal part of the song. Which this moment, is almost completely endless in reality. They take so much time to actually start performing the song, it gets a bit frustrating to wait. For example, once they arrive to play their instruments they begin to run all over the place again, and it's not until three times that they do the same thing is that they actually get to play the instruments and perform the song.

Something that I could say that bothers me as well, is that fact that Dean starts singing, his voice is barely hearable because the instruments' sounds are too high in volume than his voice. But nonetheless, Eraser is a good song, though I think that list Low-Budget video keeps much more to be desires, despite being certenly superior than others.

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