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

and You Tell Mt Where sounds like a Game Theory song, as Newman said himself.

Spidyr is also a Swan Lake cover.

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Hipster Traveling Wilburys

No that's the Traveling Wilburys

That time Jenny Lewis covered "Handle With Care" with fucking Ben Gibbard, Conor Oberst and M. Ward is likely a better candidate.

traveling wilburys own so

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this is pretty good so far

Letterman performance of title track. Looks like Kelly Hogan is becoming a touring New Pornographer thanks to Neko.

https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SaHXd4RhDs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SaHXd4RhDs

That's not Kelly Hogan that's Coco from the Ettes

You're Coco from the Ettes.

Ha was just coming here to say I didn't realize Coco was in the live version of the band.

Love all the crazy backing vox on this album.

I know salivating over the Bejar songs is the cool thing to do but all my fave tracks on here are Newman songs. "Dancehall Domine" "Brill Bruisers" "Wide Eyes" "Backstairs" "Fantasy Fools" are all pretty great.

I hung out with Coco in Nashville one night because she's a friend of a friend. If you ever get the chance, I recommend it. Her default level of enthusiasm for life is 11.

xp Champions of Red Wine is better than the entirety of Neko's last album

My old band opened for the Ettes a long time ago and they all seemed like delightful people.

Coco is mad cute

I know salivating over the Bejar songs is the cool thing to do but all my fave tracks on here are Newman songs. "Dancehall Domine" "Brill Bruisers" "Wide Eyes" "Backstairs" "Fantasy Fools" are all pretty great.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, September 4, 2014 10:43 AM

I think this is the first NPs album where a Bejar track (War on the East Coast) is my favorite. I've always enjoyed his contributions - esp on Electric Version - but they've always taken a (distant) backseat to Newman's tunes for me

agree, this band has always been about newman's songs for me.

Didn't grab me on first listen, but I think that was also true of "Together," which I now kind of love. Starting listen 2 now.

yeah haters are way wrong about together. not sure how i feel about this one yet...

Title track is so good, a shame the sound on the letterman performance is poor, terrible mix and sounds a bit like monitors weren't working very well. Agree that Together is great, didn't even realize it was poorly received - what's not to like? If you like NPs that is...

Newman is the core for me too, but gotta love those Neko & Bejar songs too, such a weird combination but somehow it works great.

I think this is the first NPs album where a Bejar track (War on the East Coast) is my favorite. I've always enjoyed his contributions - esp on Electric Version - but they've always taken a (distant) backseat to Newman's tunes for me

I was working out in my yard on Sunday, and in a constant loop in my head was, "I wanted to go/home with you . . " etc. Maybe his hookiest NPs track ever, definitely in a long time. (Although I really liked "If You Can't See My Mirrors.")

There are days when Dan's songs are my favorite on their respective albums, and maybe of all time, esp. "Jackie" and "A Testament To Youth In Verse."

the Newman tracks always wind up being my favourites and this one is no different so far... "Backstairs" and "Dancehall Domine" are the standouts for me.

Yeah Backstairs is has a little darkness to it, nicely done.

took me a few weeks to really latch on, but this record is excellent.

besides insta-classic War on the East Coast the current highlights for me are Fantasy Fools, Marching Orders, Born With a Sound and Dancehall Domine. but the rest are good, too - so many have at least one really amazing part (like the "li li li" part of Champions of Red Wine). there's only one song, near the end, that feels like a bit of a chore.

is it as good as their first two? of course not. but that's an impossible and unfair bar to set. that aside, this is so solid.

for some reason, i'm relieved that i love this so much. i think i was bracing for a letdown.

pourin' one out for kurt dahle, who especially live was a vital member of this band.

i saw he's leaving but no reason. have they said?

no reason that i've seen. weird timing obv.

Glad I decided to give this one more spin last week, as it finally clicked with me. Loved "War on the East Coast" instantly, but had been resisting the rest of it since it came out. Had a very similar experience with Together in fact; is their something about how immediately pleasurable their records are that causes me to distrust them a bit at first?

grew on me too. really like the little quirky things Newman does on this one, like "Backtairs" and "Hi-Rise." And the Kathryn Calder one that's like a lost Magnetic Fields song. Usually I love the Bejar songs, but these, w/exception of "War," didn't really click (yet).

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.

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

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

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