“Pop for perverts” is how Robert Christgau once described the lo-fi arena-rock of Guided By Voices, a band the venerated rock critic chided for being “too prudish and/or alienated to take their pleasure without a touch of pain.” GBV has nothing on fellow Ohio outfit Times New Viking when it comes to crafting hooky songs that scrape eardrums raw; this is, after all, the band that supposedly turned in the master recording for 2009’s Born Again Revisited on a VHS tape. But on Dancer Equired, Times New Viking generously forsakes pain when doling out surprisingly sumptuous, big-sounding pop-rock tunes like “Don’t Go To Liverpool” and “Downtown Eastern Bloc.” It’s a record destined to alienate lo-fi purists—a constituency Times New Viking has been committed to pleasing to an almost-comical degree—but it will engage a much larger audience that was turned off by the gratingly tinny sound of the band’s previous releases.