Times New Viking
Much like Guided by Voices, Times New Viking is a noisy, lo-fi indie rock band from Ohio who made the leap from the long-running indie Siltbreeze Records to the higher-profile Matador label. Unlike Guided by Voices, whose hissy, distortion-heavy sound masked a knack for traditional '60s-influenced pop hooks and surreal lyrical wordplay, this Columbus-based trio favors a more punk-derived sound and minimalist, deliberately repetitive lyrics.
Times New Viking (the band name being an obscure and meaningless pun on the name of the popular typeface Times New Roman)...[more]
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Hot on the heels of two rabidly devoured releases on Siltbreeze, the Matador debut from this Columbus, OH band is the classic we were hoping for. These two guys and a girl make super lo-fi thrashy arty stuff with melodies buried under screeds of noise. There's a touch of early Pavement but with Midwest energy. "A bunch of ex-art school kids just out of their teens who play lo-fi, ADD-addled guitar rock hearkening back to fellow Buckeye greats Guided By Voices" - LA Weekly.[ read more ]
CD $12.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Hot on the heels of two rabidly devoured releases on Siltbreeze, the Matador debut from this Columbus, OH band is the classic we were hoping for. These two guys and a girl make super lo-fi thrashy arty stuff with melodies buried under screeds of noise. There's a touch of early Pavement but with Midwest energy. "A bunch of ex-art school kids just out of their teens who play lo-fi, ADD-addled guitar rock hearkening back to fellow Buckeye greats Guided By Voices" - LA Weekly.
LP $17.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Brand new 7" EP from Times New Viking! Includes the tracks "Call and Respond," "Pagan Eyes," "Hate Hate Hate," "No Sympathy," and "Sick & Tyred."
7" $4.16
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Order Born Again Revisited and receive a free 7" (while supplies last)! Tracks are "Move to California" b/w "City on Drugs". VINYL FORMAT. Times New Viking are not a font, but a rather audaciously talented trio from Columbus, Ohio. Known for shrouding their three-cornered pop constructions in clouds of tape hiss and buzzing noise, they have taken inspirations from sources as diverse as Br [ read more ]
LP $14.99
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Order Born Again Revisited and receive a free 7" (while supplies last)! Tracks are "Move to California" b/w "City on Drugs". Times New Viking are not a font, but a rather audaciously talented trio from Columbus, Ohio. Known for shrouding their three-cornered pop constructions in clouds of tape hiss and buzzing noise, they have taken inspirations from sources as diverse as British art-sch [ read more ]
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The Paisley Reich ably avoids D.S.A. syndrome (an acronym coined by The Shadow Ring meaning "difficult second album").Having developed even more vim and vigor, TNV's blur of high-concept pop, crud, and crunch is staggering. Scribes who languor within the compnoscenti of glossy print continue to peep about parallels to Guided By Voices and Pavement; those of us paying our own way recall the glorious lo-fi shimmer of nascent Flying Nun via The Clean, Great Unwashed, and Max Block.
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Times New Viking are not a font, but a rather audaciously talented trio from Columbus, Ohio. Known for shrouding their three-cornered pop constructions in clouds of tape hiss and buzzing noise, they have taken inspirations from sources as diverse as British art-school DIY of the late 1970s, Guided By Voices, Pavement and the Beatles. On Born Again Revisited they told us they'd improved the recording quality by 25%, and they have achieved exactly that. Whereas the master for the last albu [ read more ]
MP3 $10.49
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VINYL FORMAT. This four song 7? contains from Times New Viking contains two tracks from the Born Again Revisited LP, "Move To California" and "City On Drugs," plus two songs from the coveted Stay Awake Revisited cassette, namely "Pentagram" and "Teen Spirit In Hell."
7" $5.36
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Hot on the heels of two rabidly devoured releases on Siltbreeze, the Matador debut from this Columbus, OH band is the classic we were hoping for. These two guys and a girl make super lo-fi thrashy arty stuff with melodies buried under screeds of noise. There's a touch of early Pavement but with Midwest energy. 'A bunch of ex-art school kids just out of their teens who play lo-fi, ADD-addled guitar rock hearkening back to fellow Buckeye greats Guided By Voices' - LA Weekly.
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Brand new EP from Times New Viking! Includes the tracks 'Call & Respond,' 'Pagan Eyes,' 'Hate Hate Hate,' 'No Sympathy,' and 'Sick & Tyred.'
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This is an 18" x 24" Times New Viking show poster for the March 18 show with Psychedelic Horseshit at The Peacock Room. Designed by: Eye Noise. Limited edition, hand-numbered and signed.
Poster $19.99
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