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The New Pornographers – Crash Years

By Craig Smith • Jun 11th, 2010 • Category: Webcut of the Week

An album that has sat with us for a few weeks being lovingly digested and adored has been Together, the fifth album from Canadians The New Pornographers. Notoriously reviled in certain Webcuts quarters for their “lacking of bringing it” on their last album Challengers, A.C. Newman and Co. have considerately made amends giving us one of their finest albums to date, with a little bit of everything to appease even the hardest to please ‘Porno fan. “Crash Years” is The New Pornographers standing united with the flame-haired Neko Case leading the power pop charge. Welcome back, eh? Together is out now on Matador. Expect to see it in our end of year lists…

Tagged as: 2010, A.C. Newman, Matador, Neko Case, Remote Control, The New Pornographers, Webcut of the Week

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