Turn Times New Viking’s latest album, Rip It Off, down as low as you can and it will still somehow sound twice as loud as your average indie-rock record. TNV don’t play music, they detonate it — but not in a metal or even Fugazi sort of way. Framed by fuzzy, feedback-laced guitars, quirky keyboards, boy/girl vocals and stomping rhythms, Times New Viking play a strident style of mucky pop-rock that — if the loving reviews for both Rip It Off and No Age’s recent Nouns are any indication — seems to be making a post-GBV comeback.

“The new songs are much more together now,” laughed drummer Adam Elliott, who will return to the U.S. with his band mates Jared Phillips (guitar) and Beth Murphy (keys) for a tour that kicks off June 4 at the John Waldron Arts Center in Bloomington. “It’s like the songs are infants when we record them, then they grow up on the road. I would say that the Rip songs are in their awesome teenage years right now.

“We have a lot of stories from tours this year,” Elliott enthused, going on to say that the band’s recent U.K. tour — which entailed “partying with the Super Furry Animals for weeks and staying over at Yo La Tengo’s apartment” — was a career highlight. “We also played Mexico and put out a new record, our third, that people actually like. The record is the most exciting story of our year, I guess.”

With minimalist songs that usually clock in at or under the two-minute mark, Rip is a hook-filled album made for art-punk crowds, a fact Elliott embraces while looking forward to the band’s busy summer. “I think some of our shows are festivals, but I’m not even sure,” he said. “If you ask us to play and it makes sense, we’ll do it. We’ve grown accustomed to being something similar to migrant workers. Hopefully the failing economy can still find room for punk rock.”