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Genres
  
Lo-fi Noise Pop

Genre
  
Noise pop

Years active
  
2005–present

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Labels
  
Siltbreeze Matador Merge (US) Witchita (EU)

Origin
  
Columbus, Ohio, United States (2004)

Members
  
Jared Phillips, Beth Murphy, Adam Elliott

Albums
  
Dancer Equired!, Rip It Off, Present the Paisley Reich, Born Again Revisited, Dig Yourself

Profiles

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Times New Viking is a lo-fi indie rock band from Columbus, Ohio. The lineup consists of guitarist Jared Phillips, drummer Adam Elliott, and Beth Murphy on keyboards. Murphy and Elliott share vocal duties. Their name, "Times New Viking," is a play on the popular typeface Times New Roman. They have released five albums: 2005's Dig Yourself, 2007's Present the Paisley Reich, and 2008's Rip It Off, which NME gave an 8/10, and 2009's Born Again Revisited. Rip it Off reached No. 17 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. The band was formerly signed to Siltbreeze and Matador Records. In January 2011, they announced that their fifth album, Dancer Equired!, would be released in April via Merge in the US, Wichita in Europe, Pop Frenzy in Australia and Big Nothing in Japan.

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Music

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Times New Viking have been noted for their lo-fi aesthetic, recorded to cassette, which drew comparisons to Guided by Voices' early material. This also meant they were considered part of the "shitgaze" genre, alongside contemporaries such as Psychedelic Horseshit and Eat Skull. Notable features of their songs include shouted vocals, distorted drums and loud, trebly guitars in addition to tape hiss and brevity. The tracks on Rip Off were mastered to a RMS -db value of 0 (or near to) making them comparatively as loud as possible. Their lyrics are generally sloganistic and feature pop culture references.

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With 2009's Born Again Revisited, the band recorded the album to VHS and commented the recording fidelity had increased by 25%. In 2010, the group released a 7" single available on their tours opening for Guided by Voices. The single, featuring "No Room to Live", displayed cleaner production, a result of the band utilising proper recording studios for the first time – namely Musicol Recording studio and Columbus Discount Recordings. It has been reported by Merge Records that Dancer Equired! will also feature this production style.

Albums


  • Dig Yourself (2005)
  • Present the Paisley Reich (2007)
  • Rip It Off (January 22, 2008)
  • Born Again Revisited (September 22, 2009)
  • Dancer Equired! (April 26, 2011)
  • EPs

  • Dead New Viking EP (2005)
  • Stay Awake EP (2008)
  • Over & Over EP (2012)
  • Singles

  • "Busy Making Love and War" (2005)
  • "We Got Rocket" (2005)
  • "My Head" (2007)
  • "Call and Respond" (2008)
  • "No Time, No Hope" (2009)
  • "No Room to Live" (2011)
  • Songs

    No Room to LiveDancer Equired! · 2011
    Fuck Her TearsDancer Equired! · 2011
    No Time - No HopeBorn Again Revisited · 2009

    References

    Times New Viking Wikipedia