No Age - An Impression

What this video is

Released in 2013 alongside No Age's fourth album An Object on Sub Pop, 'An Impression' arrives at a moment of deliberate aesthetic stripping-down for the LA DIY underground. The band—Dean Spunt and Randy Randall—emerged from The Smell, a clubhouse all-ages DIY space in Los Angeles that became the epicenter of a generative art-life/music-life community. For An Object, No Age extended their total-artwork philosophy…

Why it matters

Documents the mature phase of the post-shitgaze / noise-pop underground that No Age, Times New Viking, and contemporaries catalysed in the late 2000s. By 2013, the genre had moved from abrasive lo-fi toward textural minimalism; the self-directed abstract video form enacts that shift visually,…

The director

Dean Spunt (drummer/vocalist) and Randy Randall (guitarist) are the two members of No Age, a Los Angeles-based noise rock duo formed in 2005. They emerged from the DIY venue The Smell and prior band Wives. Signed to Sub Pop 2008–2013, they have been…