(Matador Records)

There is nothing wrong with your CD player. They like it that way.

Ok, if you do stumble upon this album at some stage in your life, I beg of you to ignore the request on the CD case to ‘please play loud’. Your stereo will commit seppuku within minutes. I don’t know how they did it, but Times New Viking and their producer (enigmatically named Matt Horseshit) have made 30 minutes of short, distorted guitar-pop that spends the entire time in the red restricted realm of sound where it sounds like your speakers are crying in agony. Did they record and mix the entire album, but then re-record it through a mobile phone? It’s unnerving at times, at others bowel-loosening, but strip away the layers of pure noise and what’s left is 16 portions of primal pop – based around boy-girl vocals and biting guitars – that combine to make an overall enjoyable creation. The kind of album that you could only be sure about after reading reviews about it. You’re welcome.

MITCH ALEXANDER

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