Times New Viking - "We Got Rocket" Homemade Video

Our favorite band from Columbus, Ohio recently signed with Matador Records (yay!). It's only a matter of time before they start releasing well-produced, highly-polished videos for Matador. This amateur DIY montage anticipates their future in the video realm.

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Music

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• Times
• New
• Viking
• Matador
• Columbus
• Ohio
• Indie
• Rock

[kommievision]

if this band were given $100k to record an album, i would hope they spend it all on beer, pot and hookers, maybe a new mercedes convertible to eventually crash in the olentangy river, and of course a year's supply of doritos; but they need to spend it all so they can't afford a studio and have to stay in the basement with a fostex 4track cassette recorder and about 4 or 5 blank tapes. if not, they will wind up like the toll with a song like jonathan toledo. so smoke up.

[deathghostboo]

if this was recorded on "better" equipment it wouldnt sound as awsome

[disasterology777]

I understand some people don't enjoi what Times New Viking are about, and that is because TNV are to honest and raw for their opponents synapses to process the actual level of sheer brilliance in their music. If Puff Uncle or Snoop Cat didn't produce it then people don't 'like' it. Whatever. I dig their vibe and their music because they embody a surreal and beautiful hopelessness that is very familiar and human as opposed to all the random garbage that spews out of big wig record labels.

[Ty311]

this makes me want to tear my eyes out and shove sharp, pointy pencils in my ears as deep as they will go

[localdummiesguy]

@kommievision suck it sideways hipster

[rhodkemp1]

and that's a very good thing

[egdeltur666]

1980? I wouldn't ngo back that far but then I've heard them go further, so... honestly I kind of want more 90's hauntology, since I actually grew up in the 90's, so it strikes a little more of a chord with me.

[egdeltur666]

well-produced? highly-polished? What the hell are you talking about? It certainly isn't this band, whatever it is.

[ajdicks]

the lo-fi sound is not the problem, it's that they're rehashing 1980

[jkerouac02]

They could easily get better recording equipment, but they record this way to get a certain sound. A very lo-fi sound. Its something that takes a few listens to start to like. The first time my buddy made me listen to lo-fi bands, I thought the same thing--they'd sound better if it wasn't so lo-fi. But the sonic qualities of lo-fi do add to the music in a way. I'd like them no matter what they recorded on though.