If this is the start of the band’s long fade out, here’s hoping those faders don’t come down too quickly.
The album is, at least by the group’s typical power-pop standards, a heavier, murkier affair.
Whiteout Conditions is the first New Pornos album where arrangement is as much of a focal point as melody.
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Like the band’s best work, Brill Bruisers keeps you on your toes with its unrelenting minutiae.
On each successive album, the New Pornographers have become less off-the-cuff and more cerebral.
“The Ties That Bind” is probably the most Cally-centric episode of the show’s run.
Challengers speaks to the real breadth of the New Pornographers’s skill with all manners of pop styles.
Sunday evening proved that the fest has some cajones underneath all that tie-dye.
The individual songs run just a measure or two too long, and at 14 tracks there are simply too many soundalike songs on the album.