Age of Peace- Ode To Life

On Age of Peace, Cincinnati’s Angie Willcutt and Micah Wu—best known for the wiry velocity of Artificial Go and ROD—slow their pulse to a private murmur, building songs from bare necessities: one guitar, one piece of percussion, and soft inside voices. Its lo-fi hiss a necessary condition of intimacy, where traces of Nico, Sibylle Baier, and private-press loner folk drift through a 20-watt amp, proving how little ornament a beautiful song actually needs.