Pitchfork

With an utter disregard for fidelity and a more than compensatory deftness with all things melodic, Times New Viking have one of 2007's better efforts-- the unduly snoozed-on Present the Paisley Reich LP on Siltbreeze-- under their belts.

To follow, the cacophonic Columbus-based crew have blasted out Rip It Off, their debut for the Matador label, due January 22 (the same day Cat Power's Jukebox arrives via the same label). Stretching sixteen songs tightly over a half hour or so, the disc will-- according to the band's MySpace blog-- birth a single sometime next month.

Looks like they took their labelmates' Ass-beating challenge seriously, too: Rip It Off contains a track titled "Times New Viking vs. Yo La Tengo". Ooh, it's on!

An East Coast tour, too, is in the works, though those details are pending. The band will play Cafe Bourbon Street in their native Columbus tomorrow evening (October 20).

Rip It Off:

01 Teen Drama
02 (My Head)
03 RIP Allegory
04 The Wait
05 DROP-OUT
06 Come Together
07 Faces on Fire
08 Relevant: Now
09 The Early '80s
10 Mean God
11 Another Day
12 The Apt.
13 Off the Wall
14 End of All Things
15 Times New Viking vs. Yo La Tengo
16 Post Teen Drama