The New Pornographers - Continue As A Guest - VINYL LP

Over the past 20 years, The New Pornographers have proven themselves one of the most excellent bands in indie rock. They've constantly offered new sonic surprises with every album, and Continue as a Guest is their greatest leap to date. The group's ninth album and first for Merge establishes them alongside modern luminaries like Yo La Tengo and Superchunk when it comes to their ability to evolve while still retaining what made them so special in the first place. A dazzling and intriguing collection of songs that are truly built to last, Continue as a Guest finds bandleader A.C. Newman and his compatriots Neko Case, Kathryn Calder, John Collins, Todd Fancey, and Joe Seiders exploring fresh territory and shattering the barriers of their collective comfort zone. Album Tracks 1. Really Really Light 2. Pontius Pilate's Home Movies 3. Cat and Mouse with the Light 4. Last and Beautiful 5. Continue As a Guest 6. Bottle Episodes 7. Marie and the Undersea 8. Angelcover 9. Firework in the Falling Snow 10. Wish Automatic Suite

Matador Records celebrates the 20th anniversary of The New Pornographers' second full-length, Electric Version (2003), with a limited edition opaque blue vinyl reissue. Album Tracks 1. The Electric Version 2. From Blown Speakers 3. The Laws Have Changed 4. The End of Medicine 5. Loose Translation 6. Chump Change 7. All for Swinging You Around 8. The New Face of Zero and One 9. Testament to Youth in Verse 10. It's Only Divine Right 11. Ballad of a Comeback Kid 12. July Jones 13. Miss Teen Wordpower

A woman is trapped on a cruise ship. A preacher decides to go down with his town. A man at the florist finds himself lost in the meaning of the arrangement. These and other people at personal and societal extremes are the subjects of ten timely, timeless short stories collected as meticulously crafted pop songs by The New Pornographers on their forthcoming album, The Former Site Of. The album, like Continue as a Guest, finds The New Pornographers-bandleader A.C. Newman, Neko Case, Kathryn Calder, John Collins, and Todd Fancey-expanding their already rich catalog in surprising fashion. Joined by legendary session drummer Charley Drayton (Divinyls, Keith Richards, Fiona Apple), the space contained in a New Pornographers song has never been this clearly articulated or generously textured, giving a distinct pulse to the characters whose lives spill out in Newman's tender, evocative lyrics. The Former Site Of adds new depth to the sound Newman shook loose through building and recording in a home studio, fine-tuning the band's creative process far beyond the lockdown-era necessities of remote collaboration. InchHaving time in my studio really opened things up,Inch he explains. InchI can get the skeleton of a song together first-just a couple of elements, the key feeling, really as little as possible-before bringing it to the band and running from there.Inch Two albums into this shift, The New Pornographers are creating universes of intricately textured sound and narrative detail, every layer keyed to reveal an unexpected new facet. As on Continue as a Guest, one of the more readily apparent layers is the way a song forms itself around a featured instrument. On The Former Site Of, it's a mandolin which, in Carl Newman's hands, lends lead single InchVotiveInch it's sense of acceleration as it builds from the atmospheric sweep of it's synth and keyboard opening to a classic, w