The New Pornographers album Brill Bruisers is coming in August 2014.

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Saw them yesterday, very good show - powerful pop really! Newman's guitar sound was awesome and wow Kathryn Calder kicks ass, great vocals. This was my first NP show and was impressed by Newman's vocals too, it's always a fun experience to hear vocals you know so well in a live setting.

Unfortunately they hadn't brought any cool merch (really wanted a tshirt!), Blaine explained after the show that it was too expensive to pay merch-stand-people in Europe or something.

They played a lot of new stuff and I was reminded how much I've listened to their music - I knew all the songs more or less! I never thought of NP as a nerdy band, but seeing them on stage and looking around the audience (and at myself) I realized maybe they are.

Anyway, I saw a youtube comment nagging about the "dynamic range" of Brill Bruisers and Together, and as much as I love NP I have to agree that it sounds overcompressed to me, even live it did so maybe it's an aesthetic choice.

niels, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 12:04 (nine years ago) link

two years pass...

The song Whiteout Conditions is amazing. (Great video too). Has anyone heard the album?

rip van wanko, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 02:45 (six years ago) link

OG discussion of that album here: New Pornographers and here:new New Pornographers

Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 03:36 (six years ago) link

Kind of weird there wasn't an actual thread for it. Paradigms be shiftin'

Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 03:37 (six years ago) link


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