Times New Viking
Times New Viking
Top Songs
| 1 | Skull Versus WizardE | ||
| 2 | The Statue [Part 2 (A Monument and it's Muse, a Love Story)]E | ||
| 3 | Lion & OilE | ||
| 4 | No Good | ||
| 5 | Somebody's Slave |
Albums
Apr 2011 • 14 songs
Sep 2009 • 15 songs
Oct 2008 • 5 songs
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About
Biography
Much like Guided by Voices, Times New Viking are 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) formed in Col...