Lo Fi
* Times New Viking: Devo & Wire (2.5 mb) | New Times, New Hope (4.0 mb) | Love Your Daughters (4.5 mb)
From Present The Paisley Reich : Siltbreeze Records : SB93
It’s really cool to live in a city where decent record stores exist. I’m not gonna say that they’re the best in the world, but it’s nice to walk in to a store and get recommendations that you can trust. This group/album is one such find.
Times New Viking are a three piece (guitar, keyboard, drum) from Ohio that have been quietly producing some amazing lo-fi indie noise. Almost as if, back in their primes, Guided By Voices and Pavement had a love child. Swell Maps is also a band that gets referenced a lot, but I can’t be too sure about that, since I don’t know Swell Maps. This is also a band that famously got the head honcho of Siltbreeze (fantastic 90’s indie/noise label) to come out of retirement and release this bands albums.
Anonymous said,
April 2, 2007 @ 9:43 am
very soothing oh my
Pelle said,
April 2, 2007 @ 5:36 pm
I dig this! Nice and raw & unpolished, just like the doctor prescribed.
mike said,
April 3, 2007 @ 9:27 am
Very reminiscent of GBV, especially in the melody of “Devo and Wire” (about the bands?). Clever band name as well. Not sure about the Swell Maps reference, other than just being kind of noisy. Swell Maps were more artsy punk.
But I do think based on the stuff you post that you would love that band. If you’re familiar with either Epic Soundtracks or Nikki Sudden, that was their first group.
mike said,
April 3, 2007 @ 9:35 am
incidentally, I saw this band open for mission of burma, but I don’t remember being very excited by them. Thanks for pointing them out, I probably would have never tried a second look at them.