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Born Again Revisited

Times New Viking

Born Again Revisited

Latest installment of lo-fi noise pop from the Ohio outfit

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6.6

Label
Matador
UK Release date
21/09/2009
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  1. 9.0 |   Clash

    The band's most accessible album to date, with an embarrassingly extensive range of musical styles and pop melodies on offer
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  2. 8.1 |   Pitchfork

    A deeply rewarding record and a worthy entry in a pretty stellar catalog
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  3. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    There’s a real virtue in simplicity, and the band seem to know this intimately—the right two or three buzzing chords, boy/girl vocals, and Cale-style fuzz organ make for heavenly pop hits.
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  4. 8.0 |   Mojo

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  5. 7.5 |   The Quietus

    They do not paint using a vast palette, this lot, but they do make a very good argument for musical Stuckism, and always give the impression that this has emerged just as they want it to.
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  6. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  7. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    Punchy TNV trademarks like those pell-mell guitars, exuberant boy-girl harmonies and swaggering sonic meltdowns are still present
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  8. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    There’s ... a low-level hostility to the listener – there’s not enough we’re allowed to understand – or maybe just an unrefined sense of how much crackle, feedback, and distortion actually make a rudimentary riff or vocal interesting.
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  9. 5.0 |   NME

    Print edition only

  10. 4.0 |   No Ripcord

    Bands like Times New Viking give a bad name to what small originality other lo-fi bands possess
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