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Age Rings find a little less is a lot more on ‘Black Honey’

By Luke O’Neil

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  November 04, 2011

Upon first listen to “Black Honey’’ from Boston’s Age Rings, you might be taken aback at the album’s breadth of the song styles. It shifts seamlessly from the bar-rock and chunky-piano riffing of “Important Guy’’ to the Pixies-ish bass-buzz and fuzz of “Rock and Roll Is Dead,’’ to the schizophrenic screaming of “Lemonade,’’ with detours into a looping, loping, Beck-ian drawl, and wounded balladry that would make Conor Oberst weep. It’s like listening to two entire albums worth of material at once.

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