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September 03, 2008
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Times New Viking - "Call & Respond"
The first track offered from Times New Viking's forthcoming Stay Awake EP would certainly fulfill the release's titular goal of preventing you from nodding off on a long-haul trucking route. "Call & Respond," however, contains nary a whiff of it's own monicker's back and forth vocal shouting; the blood-red hollerin' is, as usual, sloppily overlapped and built from the primal essence of melody, rather than easily discernible and immaculately articulated lyrics. Fevered snippets like, "to move on/ taking too long," are all I can glean for now. But maybe the title is referring to the track's dueling instrumental impulses, which are, to be accurate, actually going on simultaneously. The trudging Neanderthal guitar riffs seem unmoored from the playful, perhaps taunting even, Westing (By Musket & Sextant) countermelody that prances above it. As both are enveloped by thick, soupy production fog, I feel somewhat unsettled in proclaiming that that nagging line is supplied by organ, but that's the usual set up, so I'm assuming. Anyway, it's not got the faded romance of Rip it Off's finest, but it is still totally lovable...if you're a bit of a misanthrope to begin with.
Previously:
- A, shall we say, minor interview with Times New Viking.
Posted by Jeff Klingman at September 3, 2008 12:25 PM
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