I just don't know what some bands are thinking sometimes. Listen to this song. It's a good song, it makes me feel things, but for some reason I can't listen to it turned up much past a hair on the dial, because they've drenched the song in so much bright white noise that it's actually painful to listen to.

I guess that's just their shtick. Wikipedia says they're "lofi" and record their albums to cassette tape. Sounds to me that after they record their album to cassette they then throw the cassette in the street and run over it repeatedly with their fixies, shouting all the while about how fucking novel they are. The sad thing is that there were other people at the time, standing around, cheering them on, and telling them that stuff like this was pleasing to hear.

If that isn't proof that occasionally celebrated music trends are completely bullshit and awful, I don't know what is. It's like the art world up in this shit.

Three years after this album came out, Times New Viking took to a studio for the first time, recording Dancer Acquired---which I am pretty sure is a Killers reference---which still kind of sounds like ass. Instead of waves of static it's bathed in a near-1970's vibe, with a nice warm buzzy feel to it, the way I wish every album was still recorded. Unfortunately it appears all that static of the prior albums was masking the fact that they play and sing sloppily, like they're at that point of late night drunkenness when you're just tired and don't want to do a fucking thing but for some reason you're recording an album???. Seriously.

Anyway, I guess you could say I'm saying this band sucks. If you like them, you're welcome.