The Waiting Room Lounge

Times New Viking

w/ Psychedelic Horseshit, Yuppies, & Mr. Wizard

The apostrophe-spurning Times New Viking have precociously absorbed the lessons of English post-punk. Obvious points of reference include The Fall circa 1982, The Blue Orchids and Swell Maps, but in characteristically American style these influences are filtered through a prism of pop melodicism which references Pavement and wild cards like Smog and Pussy Galore. Live, they are said to recall the art-damaged hardcore intensity of Harry Pussy. This particular range of influences is apparently in the Ohio water, perhaps as result of decades of industrial decline- in any case TNV pick up all these as though they were simply the most obvious hand of cards to be holding in 2006, and bet heavily on them.