Four times a year the visual artists John Herschend and Will Rogan publish The Thing Quarterly, a conceptual publication that issues "objects" to it's subscribers. For each "issue", The Thing invites a different creative talent to create this object. Today, they released Issue 24, a record designed by Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy that features music from No Age and visuals by Todd Cole. 1,500 copies of the record were made, and it's available for purchase here.
The Mulleavys have worked with No Age previously. In 2010 they made a short film called “Aanteni” that the band soundtracked. According to the New York Times, that project was "based on the shredding, burning and sandpapering that [Rodarte] incorporated into their spring/summer 2010 collection". The record's Side A is a live nine-minute No Age track from the film; Side B is a 13-minute "ruined" version of the score. The cover of the record is illustrated with a swirl of colored liquid from the opening and closing credits of the film. Watch the film below.
Laura Mulleavy said in the New York Times: “It became this combination of doing the perfect rendition of something and then having the destroyed version of it. You really see the beauty of what people used to do with album art.”
"Aanteni":
via Molly Beauchemin
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