Aha, here’s a band that knows how to make a second album. Maybe no band has ever understood it better, maybe we’ll find the formula for the rest of our lives here, dear people, maybe we’ll never have to put up with that damn second album again. Bay Area British duo Cuneiform Tabs released their rather attractive debut album in 2024. The self-titled work smelled of pubs, looked like the ’80s and sounded like psychedelicized post-punk: everything rattled, everyone smoked – all in an anthemic mix of laconicism and Sturm und Drang. You live like that once and never again. There can be no repetition.
The already perfectly titled second album Age checks this, checks everything, and that’s probably why it doesn’t sound stale, but has simply developed an even more mature sex appeal. They have learned that you can make out without drugs. Or something like that. The sound is less stubborn, less noisy, more relaxed, more sensitive to nuances. And where Cuneiform Tabs was still effortless and carefree in the best sense of the word, the duo has faced the challenge of not being 100% Age anymore and… simply put more effort into it! Things were formulated, sequences thought through, coherence sought, pop moments created. Suddenly Simon & Garfunkel is in here. Here’s to you!
Age
