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Times New Viking sign to Merge/Wichita

21st Jan 2011

Times New Viking today announce details of their forthcoming record which will be released in April via their new 'homes' – Wichita Recordings (Europe), Merge (US), Pop Frenzy (Australia) and Big Nothing (Japan).

'Dancer Equired' is a return to the hive, even if the record’s creation was out of their usual boundaries. It should be known that for the first time the trio escaped to a studio. Between Columbus Discount Recordings and the famed Mus-i-col (closest thing to Muscle Shoals we got) during the Summer of Violence. With the help of Adam Smith and Dustin White, Times New Viking produced and recorded and album that sounds like a mellow night out. Though it abandons the pissy histrionics of the past, it remains loud and brash, with mammoth guitars still piled on, only magnifying the bright beautiful traits of the band has nurtured since the beginning.

It would be easy to describe the album as a new chapter, but in knowing the forward-thinking, never-settled energies of Times New Viking, this is an entirely new book. Rip it up and start again.

Times New Viking also premiere the video for album track 'No Room To Live' today. Directed and edited by Brandon Reichard and Pelham Johnston, with production from the band, the vibrant footage saw around 40 artists from Columbus, Ohio and elsewhere contribute by printing each frame from real video then hand drawing, colouring or decorating (nearly 3,000 of them) and putting back together.

The band are confirmed for a number of appearances at this year's SXSW including the Merge label showcase (full schedule for TNV vs SXSW will be announced shortly)

www.timesnewviking.net