Post-punk tsunami No Age first hit the Los Angeles DIY scene like a catastrophically loud collaboration between Kicking Giant and My Bloody Valentine, drenching their low-tech punk anthems in walls of fuzz and reverb, picking up a swathe of avant-garde music fans along the way. The duo knocked out three albums in a few short years, before accelerating their efforts on the punker-than-thou art-rock experiment ‘An Object’ – an album it’d be safe to call divisive, thanks to stripping back an already pretty thin production veneer, doctoring their amps, playing with home-made percussion and breaking every formula they could in suitably Liars-esque fashion. This year’s upcoming ‘Snares Like a Haircut’ sounds like the journey coming full circle: windswept, highway punk songs full of life; technicolour production that lets the simplest of band setups sound as broad and big as an orchestra. “Maybe this is progress,” they sing, “Maybe it’s not, but it’s not for you to say.” No Age sound as unshakeable as ever.

Tue 3 Apr, 7.30pm at The Hare and Hounds, 106 High St, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7JZ. £10 seetickets.com