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CHALLENGERS - The New Pornographers
| Jam | | Even pornographers grow up and settle down. Look at Carl Newman. The ginger genius behind indie-pop superstars New Pornographers relocated from Vancouver to Brooklyn last year to live with his girlfriend -- who became Mrs. Newman on Aug. 3. (And yes, Neko Case sang at the wedding.)...full text |
| | Twistedear | | There's nothing wrong with fish fingers, alright? If you're going to try to tell me that you don't like them wodged between two slices of chunky white bread with loads of ketchup then you're lying. Or vegetarian. In which case, there's nothing wrong with beans on toast, or chip butties. Don't pretend you disagree. It's simple stuff that everyone likes, especially when your mum makes it for you even though you're over 30. Comfort food. The sort of thing gastrosnobs eat in the middle of the night when they think nobody's watching....full text |
| | Drownedinsound | Indie supergroup and friends of The Shins they may be, but for Vancouver octet The New Pornographers it's taken the best part of a decade for most people outside of their home territory to notice their output.
Although their material was pretty rare until a few years ago, their often sporadic but quite definitely measured style of melancholia has been quite constant in recent times, and Challengers actually represents their fourth long-player of the decade....full text |
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