A Good Story: Randy Randall of No Age (Part II)

On maintaining a healthy balance between ambient excursions and punk rock

Brain Burner: Randy Randall of No Age

Everything in Between (2010)

The first track, “Life Prowler,” we recorded in the mastering suite with Pete Lyman. We felt like we had the whole record together but needed something to open, an opening song. So we had written this thing with a sample again, like a drum machine kick loop. We asked Pete if we could record it and he’s like, “well, I have people in the studio, we're mastering today.” So he tracked that song in the mastering suite, which — unless you have two million dollars to try and get Pete to master — I don't think you can do anymore. But at the time, it was really cool that he was patient with us and would put up with our weird creative ideas.

Everything in Between has some riffs where I literally just wanna know what the fuck you're doing.

Do you play guitar?

Yes. I wanted to ask you about specific effects at some point. There’s something on Goons Be Gone — right, it was “Smoothie,” is that a Count to 5 pedal?

Oh, yeah! Montreal Assembly is amazing.