Times New Viking - Paisley Reich

2009 sophomore release from the New Zealand Alt-Rock outfit. Having developed even more vim and vigor, TNV's blur of high-concept Pop, crud, and crunch is staggering. Scribes who languor within the glossy print continue to peep about parallels to Guided By Voices and Pavement; those of US paying our own way recall the glorious lo-fi shimmer of nascent Flying Nun via the Clean, Great Unwashed, and Max Block.