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Apr 26, 2011While Dancer Equired boasts improved fidelity, Times New Viking makes sure not to shape up too much; the songs casually meander toward tunefulness, with wiry guitar riffs stumbling over fumbling drums and flat-footed boy-girl harmonies.
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Apr 25, 2011Dancer Equired is probably the most transparent the band has ever sounded.
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May 10, 2011Dancer Equired is short at thirty minutes, but it does the job of re-leasing Times New Viking's mad energy.
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May 2, 2011The ratio is fixed, and any intimations of possible ineptitude is eradicated in a batch of songs that transition from anthem to chaos with ease.
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Apr 28, 2011Dancer Equired is a fine and mature next entry in the growing catalog of three of Columbus' finest.
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Apr 27, 2011Dancer Equired! should be required listening for any band looking to grow its brand in new ways without losing its core audience--and also for those who like their pop dirty, sweet, and fairly audible.
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Apr 27, 2011For all the praise heaped on Times New Viking, Dancer Enquired is the band's first truly great record.
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Apr 22, 2011At 14 tracks Dancer Equired is at a glance their second shortest record, with the added bonus that the cleaner production job makes subtler variances more discernible and the record as a whole a more varied experience.
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Apr 20, 2011Among those still cranking out shambolic odes to the suburban bored, these reformed shitgazers rule.
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Apr 26, 2011The Ohio trio's fifth LP and first for Merge, sees Times New Viking maturing to an even cleaner sound, though never completely forfeiting the kill-yr-speakers aesthetic that made them standouts in the lo-fi community.
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May 10, 2011More important than any commentary about the listening habits of internet browsers I could possibly make is the fact that Dancer Equired stands as the perfect gateway for new Times New Viking listeners, and definitely deserves to be enjoyed and not brushed aside.
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May 4, 2011Times New Viking are just as wilfully, wonderfully lo-fi as ever, but five albums in they've finally let the listener get that little bit closer to the heart of what they do.
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Apr 26, 2011There's a glint of genius in these songs that's best realized if you turn this album up as loud is it can go and think about relationships and stuff. Even if noise/lo-fi/shitgaze is showing its wrinkles, its heart still beats strong here.
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Apr 26, 2011Ultimately, this record shows what can go really right when artists push the boundaries. Times New Viking purists fear not, though, the grit's still there and the edges are still rough; they've just dusted off the surface so you can see a bit more of the shine that's been there all along.
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Apr 25, 2011Scrappy but charming, Times New Viking's fifth album shows their dirty sound scrubs up nicely.
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Apr 27, 2011The continuous hitmaking of Present the Paisley Reich might be gone forever, but Dancer Equired offers up enough catchy pop jams to warrant a listen.
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Q MagazineMay 31, 2011They've mercifully scraped away some of the abrasiveness on their fifth record--even taking the drastic step of recording in a real studio. It's a move that skillfully exposes their inner charms while preserving their lo-fi cool. [Jun 2011, p.123]
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MojoMay 18, 2011This still requires a certain kind of listener: namely, people who find Michael Cera's movies charming. [May 2011, p.109]
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Apr 29, 2011While many of those artists have since released their finest work to date by stripping away a lot of the dissonance, the same can't be said of Dancer Equired. Though revealing, this probably wasn't the right set of songs to unveil in the process.
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Apr 28, 2011Ultimately, the seasick anthem "Try Harder" could work as the manifesto for Dancer Equired, its title both recognizing the new (relative) sheen and extending a middle finger to those who require it.
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Apr 26, 2011Dancer Equired trounces for thirty minutes in the same formulaic way as before: one-note exuberance, monotone instrumentation, and washed out pop hooks. Granted, it features some of their strongest songs to date, but it's not enough to salvage the exhaustive, pouring reverberation.
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Apr 21, 2011This album shows that Times New Viking seem more likely to be comfortable in front of a crowd rather than a mixing desk; it is worth an enquiry but with a little more application it could have been much better.
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Apr 21, 2011Where the first four records (and particularly the Matador releases) sounded like a band fighting for their lives – or at least pretty keen to make you listen – this is the sound of a band struggling to muster the energy to go on.