New Times New Viking - "No Time, No Hope"
Lo-fi Columbus, Ohio noise-pop trio Times New Viking are following up their 2008 breakthrough Rip It Off and subsequent Stay Awake EP with their fourth proper full-length, Born Again Revisited. In the announcement over at Matador, Gerard Cosloy cheekily claims they delivered the master recordings via VHS and that it features "25% higher fidelity" than last batch of songs, "a percentage our own engineering staff has confirmed after hourse (sic) of exhaustive laboratory tests." He also notes:
A cursory glance at the American rock underground reveals a landscape littered with well-intentioned but vastly inferior bands who've caught the lo-fi bug.
Gerard is selling you the record, yes, but he has good taste (mostly) and it's hard to deny TNV have a knack for the actual hooks lacking in many come-lately crews of a similar fidelity. See, for instance, the timely "No Time, No Hope."
Times New Viking - "No Time, No Hope" (MP3)
Born Again Revisited is out 9/22 via Matador.
Posted at 4:03 PM by brandon in Album Art, MP3
Tags: Times New Viking
Oh man, this is so good.
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No Time No Hope Kids
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These guys are fucking amazing. I'm so psyched for this new record.
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Being a huge fan music who lives in Columbus Ohio, I sure wish that I gave a fuck about these guys.
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I realize I am probably going to get flamed to death for this, but I thought the last album these guys did was a terrible piece of sucking crap and sounded like they had they had trained a team of moneys to play a set of broken instruments and then recorded the ensuing distortion-fuzz-equals-artistic-brilliance cacophony and sat around awarding themselves prizes for music and quoting their review on Pitchfork to each other. In other words, everything that's bad about lo-fi music.
However, maybe it's because of discovering Vivian Girls, I didn't mind this song. Dude badly needs to invest in a singing class though.
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This is like the old Slothbear EP, but less complex
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