No Record

Viza-Noir cover vast amounts of territory in three minutes. They trace their legacy to bands, such as the Minutemen, Burma, the Wipers or MX-80, whose idiosyncracies, broad influences, nerdiness, and musical ambition kept them on the margins of the very music they helped to define. Yet Viza-Noir shun the affectations of the so-called new wave of post-punk; all these contortions of meter, tempo, and mood, rather than ends in themselves, are integral to the music's inexorable forward drive. Viza-Noir map the spaces between the city's walls and the souls that inhabit them to forge a vision that is entirely their own.

"Apparently the band has spent the past five years honing, honing, honing: the album is densely packed, brightly polished, and filler free. Every tricky shift, metallic clang, and derailed melody is there for a reason, an honor to its Mission of Burma/Killing Joke/Shellac heritage instead of a cheap retread." - Monica Kendrick Chicago Reader