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The official website of the band The New Pornographers. New album 'Continue as a Guest' out on 3/31/23 via Merge Records. New single Really Really Light out now. Touring North America in Spring 2023.
The New Pornographers are a Canadian indie rock band, formed in 1997 in Vancouver. Presented as a musical collective and supergroup of singer-songwriters and musicians from multiple projects, the band has released nine studio albums to date.
The New Pornographers. New album 'Continue as a Guest' out 3/31! New song "Really Really Light" + music video out now. North America headline tour on sale now. Subscribe 23.7K.
- Mass Romantic (2000) Bands that write songs this fully realized tend to make their masterpiece down the road after the initial clamor of the debut has died down, and it’s true, Whiteout Conditions and even Brill Bruisers aren’t far from being Mass Romantic’s equals.
- Electric Version (2003) For some reason, the New Pornographers never again utilized the grand and vacuum-packed production of their first two albums.
- Whiteout Conditions (2017) Except for Together, which is kind of a reheated mush of every New Pornographers album, the group’s other six albums all divide neatly into pairs, thusly: Mass Romantic and Electric Version as uncorked power-pop fizz with barely a moment to catch one’s breath, Twin Cinema and Challengers as two different sides of a more prog- and art-rock-informed version of same, and finally, Brill Bruisers and Whiteout Conditions injecting synthesized rhythm elements into a trickier and more urgent version of the formula.
- Brill Bruisers (2014) Behold, the synths. By 2014, it was declared law that any respectable indie-pop stalwarts still kicking around had to buck up and get a sequencer in the mix.
- “Letter From An Occupant” (from Mass Romantic, 2000) On a short list of world historic great pop songs — ranging from “Take On Me” to “Hey Ya!” — the New Pornographers managed to place themselves smack in the middle of that strange and wonderful derby with one of the most inescapable tunes ever written.
- “Ballad Of A Comeback Kid” (from Electric Version, 2003) It is unclear if Dan Bejar was prescient, flippant or both when he wrote the lines to “Ballad Of A Comeback Kid” in 2003, what with its inferences of tenement living, global despair and an impending third world existence.
- “Sing Me Spanish Techno” – (from Twin Cinema, 2005) The rollicking, emotionally ambivalent “Sing Me Spanish Techno” is the kind of hard won travelogue that peppers the catalog of many a band accomplished enough to tour the world and still find the experience more uneasy than it is edifying.
- “Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk” (from Together, 2010) The bouncy and infectious “Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk” is a lovely deviation from the standard New Pornographers’ formula.
Jan 9, 2023 · The New Pornographers are back with a new song, “Really Really Light,” which leads an album called Continue as a Guest. The LP is out March 31, via Merge, and you can hear the single below.
Nov 29, 2021 · The New Pornographers Ride Again: Carl Newman on 21 Years of Being ‘a Band That Should Not Exist’. The songwriter goes deep on the origins of his unlikely supergroup, the genius of Neko Case ...
