Todays SotD is the first single from the new Times New Viking record, Dancer Equired! It's a couple of minutes of rattly, noisy goodness very much in the TNV mould. They've been doing this ultra lo-fi noise pop stuff longer than pretty much everyone else around at the moment (with the possible exception of Psychedelic Horseshit) and yet they still keep churning out singalong classics like this. The rest of the new record I found a little disappointing, except for a few tracks, but this is great.
I saw TNV last night (supported by Punch Table favourites Veronica Falls, who played a few new great-sounding songs) and they were good as usual. They must have played about twenty songs in thirty-five high-energy minutes, including most of the new album plus some old favourites like "(my head)" and "Teenage Lust". They tried to play this song last, and got about 30 seconds in, until the guitar player broke a string. He threw down his guitar in disgust, ran offstage, picked up another, played four bars or so then broke two more strings. They abandoned the song in the end, a suitably shambolic end to a fun show.
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