GOOD AT MUSIC, RUBBISH AT PHOTOSHOP

The first time we put Times New Viking on the office stereo we had to check to see if the speakers were broken. Like Sleater-Kinney on The Woods, this is the sound of a band revelling in blow-out distortion. Somehow, it works.

The band (immediately attractive for the font pun) have been knocking around since 2005, but it's third album Rip It Off, released on their new home label Matador, which has brought the attention. In part they're riding on the wave of similarly scuzzy noise merchants like White Denim and No Age (see here for a brilliant piece on how "sounding like shit can sound great").

If you get off on feeling like your ears are melting into your brain - and really, who doesn't - then you should feel right at home with Rip It Off.

Here they are playing Thing With A Hook, live in New York: