#11 Seller of 2005! The third album from Vancouver pop maestros The New Pornographers continues to feature Neko Case and Dan Bejar (Destroyer) as well as new vocalists Kathryn Calder and Nora O'Connor. Fans of Mass Romantic's kinkiness will find immediate appeal, as will those partial to Electric Version's drive. Yet the songs on Twin Cinema veer more toward the rocking and the personal than the sugar of the earlier work. Chief singer / songwriter A.C. Newman has absorbed not just the mechanics of classic ...   [ read more ]

CD $13.99

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#54 Seller of 2005! Features Destroyer leader Dan Bejar, here second-in-command to Carl Newman, (singer/lyricist of Superconductor and Zumpano), with guest vocals by Neko Case (ex-Maow, current Corn Sister, also makes solo albums), plus John Collins (Smugglers/Evaporators), and two other guys no one outside of Canada has heard of. What we're saying here is: This is talented collection of rock musicians. There was a bit of label bidding war for this release, because "just about every last three-minute thril...   [ read more ]

CD $10.99

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The executive edition includes the Challengers album plus three bonus discs, designed in a deluxe box set package. Disc one features B-Sides, demos and alternate mixes, disc two is The New Pornographers "Live From The Future", and disc three videos, photos and artwork. (note: you will download all of the bonus disc material digitally, so some-assembly is required.) Challengers continues along the lines of 2005's Twin Cinema, whose "relative melancholy makes it the band's best album yet" [Blender]; indeed, ...   [ read more ]

Deluxe CD $19.99

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