Nearly seven years have passed since the New Pornographers became overnight darlings of indie rock with their debut Mass Romantic. That’s practically an eternity in today’s hyper-accelerated world, which might explain why Challengers finds the Vancouver-spawned supergroup sounding, for the […]
Wasting no time getting to the great stuff, the New Pornographers kick off Twin Cinema with a stone-cold killer. That would be the title track, and, as a slanted-and-enchanted dose of lethal anti-pop, the song doesn’t sound like the rest […]
Think of your favorite sad-sack album, the one that should come packaged with a prescription for Paxil and stickered with a warning against operating heavy machinery while under its influence. Now behold that album’s polar opposite, the aural equivalent of […]
