Goons Be Gone isn't the perfect synthesis of chaos and control that No Age have been searching for their entire career, but it finds some of their best songs and most fruitful experiments presented in a style that's never sounded more singularly their own.
Goons Be Gone ends up feeling like an interesting best-case scenario for a band becoming more accessible.
Fifteen years into their career, the duo are still finding ways to make discord feel utopian.
Whether the album takes you back to punk’s early anti-establishment days or just makes you want to get back out into the clubs, Goons Be Gone does its job well.
No Age's latest is not ground-breaking, but it doesn't need to be. It's an enjoyable rock record from a pair of sonic auteurs whose instincts for DIY noise-punk are as strong as ever.
Goons Be Gone, their fifth album proper, strikes a deft balance between hooks'n'riffs and meditative drifts.
Goons Be Gone is nothing particularly new for them, but when No Age balance their flavors of weirdness with the wildness, it still hits the right marks.
A couple of times they get some wind in their sails ... but the overall feeling from this is that No Age are, ironically, starting to show their years.
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