TIMES NEW VIKING - BORN AGAIN REVISITED (180g LP)

Times New Viking are not a font but rather an audaciously talented trio from Columbus, OH. 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. After two albums for Philly indie Siltbreeze, they signed to Matador and tripled their sales with 2008’s Rip It Off.

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 album was a cassette, this time it was a VHS. Far more layered and varied, the album is a slow build, from the rousing “No Time, No Hope” to the anthemic, Yo La Tengo-influenced “Move To California.” Through it all their raucous sense of joy shines through unencumbered.

180g vinyl comes with MP3 coupon.

Times New Viking Born Again Revisited Track Listing

1.  Martin Luther King Day
2.  I Smell Bubblegum
3.  City On Drugs
4.  Born Again Revisited
5.  Little World
6.  No Time, No Hope
7.  Half Day In Hell
8.  Something More
9.  2/11 Don’t Forget
10. These Days
11. (No) Sympthay
12. High Holidays
13. Hustler, Psycho, Son
14. High Holidays
15. Move To California
16. Take The Piss