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

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'