#11 Seller of 2005! The third album from Vancouver pop maestros The New Pornographers continues to feature Neko Case and Dan Bejar (Destroyer) as well as new vocalists Kathryn Calder and Nora O'Connor. Fans of Mass Romantic's kinkiness will find immediate appeal, as will those partial to Electric Version's drive. Yet the songs on Twin Cinema veer more toward the rocking and the personal than the sugar of the earlier work. Chief singer / songwriter A.C. Newman has absorbed not just the m   [ read more ]

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#54 Seller of 2005! Features Destroyer leader Dan Bejar, here second-in-command to Carl Newman, (singer/lyricist of Superconductor and Zumpano), with guest vocals by Neko Case (ex-Maow, current Corn Sister, also makes solo albums), plus John Collins (Smugglers/Evaporators), and two other guys no one outside of Canada has heard of. What we're saying here is: This is talented collection of rock musicians. There was a bit of label bidding war for this release, because "just about every last three-minute thrill   [ read more ]

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The executive edition includes the Challengers album plus three bonus discs, designed in a deluxe box set package. Disc one features B-Sides, demos and alternate mixes, disc two is The New Pornographers "Live From The Future", and disc three videos, photos and artwork. (note: you will download all of the bonus disc material digitally, so some-assembly is required.) Challengers continues along the lines of 2005's Twin Cinema, whose "relative melancholy makes it the band's bes   [ read more ]

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RECOMMENDED. This scintillating pop masterpiece (and we're not exaggerating) takes the talents of the Vancouver Nine (or is it Eight?) to new levels. Every bit as infectious and explosive as the supergroup's debut, Electric Version is hyperkinetic, crammed with more information than most bands manage in a lifetime.

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Challengers continues along the lines of 2005's Twin Cinema, whose "relative melancholy makes it the band's best album yet" [Blender]; indeed, the first track, "My Rights Vs. Yours," is almost a cross between that album's beloved "Use It" and "The Bleeding Heart Show". Dialing back the frantic, these are songs with dynamics and epic sweep. While it's still a "top-down summer power-pop classic" (or any variation thereof that the band's enjoyed over the last several years), this is something mor   [ read more ]

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When the New Pornographers released their first album, Mass Romantic, in 2000, they were a cult sensation, partially because they were comprised of cult sensations from Vancouver, chief among them Carl Newman of Zumpano, Dan Bejar of Destroyer, and alt-country singer/songwriter Neko Case. Not longer after that first album, Case started to earn some accolades on her own, thereby raising the group's profile, which meant that their second album, 2003's Electric Version, garnered m   [ read more ]

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