Rip It Off

Nice Lo-Fi album with an extreme amount of distortion. Something for people that like Guided by Voices. Songs vary between a good and ok quality (3-3.5 stars).

I have a soft spot for these types of albums because they feel so earnest and scrappy. For 30 minutes I’m just imagining 3-5 friends in a garage covered with blankets and each of them has enough talent and skill to make something good despite it sounding like it was recorded on a Nintendo ds. Very dinner in America vibes (great movie btw)

I didn't dislike this, it had a lot of energy and charm. That much fuzz and distortion covers a multitude of sins though, and filters out a lot of nuance. In particular I didn't get much out of it lyrically, whatever might have been there. A bunch of noisy indie lofi pop influences came to mind, from Hüsker Dü to Pavement to Sebadoh to Guided By Voices.. not bad company in my book but also already a whole lot to choose from in that bag. I wouldn't object to hearing more of this, not sure I'd make the effort though.

In the best way possible, this sounds like it's being blasted out of someone's transistor radio that they dropped out of a building onto uneven concrete.

This was kind of strange and unexpected and elements reminded me of MBV. Which I liked! I wasn't totally in love with it but definitely appreciated a lot about it

It's gloriously lofi and it has some perfectly good songs. Not blown away by it, but I'd not skip if I heard them again.

Hard to listen to.

This one just didn’t click with me.

Rating: 5/10

At the first song, I thought: interesting sound. But as the album progressed, I grew tired of it very fast

Didn't care for this at all, sorry. 2 stars.

Wow… couldn’t understand much of the lyrics and didn’t appreciate the music. Unfortunately it isn’t something I can get into.

Indie rock, lo-fi, noise pop. Ruido absurdo. Un 1.

Pre-listen thoughts: - times new viking isn't a particularly clever name - this has really low plays on Spotify so it's probably the submitting user's band - looks like something something hipsters. Ok we've got some big fuzz garage rock type thing. A few songs in and so far we've had noise, some dissonance, gang vocals that for some reason get buried in the mix. Actually, to be fair, EVERYTHING is buried in the mix here. They must have recorded the album and run the entire thing through a fuzz pedal. Why? Dunno. Guess they thought it was art. Eh this stuff is really only borderline music, and I'm gonna treat it as such. 1/5.

This was pretty rough to listen to. It starts okay on the first few songs but then it devolves into inaudible screaming and chaotic instrumentals that are hard to enjoy. Overall it’s just not a good album from really any perspective, except for j guess the person that chose this album. 2.8/10

Well that was unbearable 1

You know it’s going to be good when the Wikipedia page simply exists to give the album title and track listing