Playlouder - Music is the Network

Plan B Magazine in association with Baba Yaga's Hut presents

TIMES NEW VIKING: Ohioans with pop melodies all charred and twisted (but no less addictive or affecting for that), leading the latest wave of Midwestern noise-rock mavericks. Their latest album Rip It Off is their debut for Matador Records, tempering their corrugated tempest not a jot: an overload of ragged harmonies and splintered guitars that’ll fill your heart with a most combustible joy. Live, they’re the same, only moreso.

Times New Viking are ably supported this evening by LOVVERS, Nottingham-based noiseniks described in the pages of Plan B as “Kerblammo rock princes”, a fine description for a group given to unexpected explosions of high-exhilaration noise.

Rounding out the line-up, Cardiff’s GINDRINKER, a duo who cast a withering eye upon modern Britain, and score that sourness with a mess of drum machine, guitar-screech and melancholic horn, a bitter symphony that’s most satisfying.

May 21st,
Corsica Studios,
Elephant & Castle,
Six Pounds
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