Tracks:
- Moves
- Crash Years
- Your Hands (Together)
- Silver Jenny Dollar
- Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk
- My Shepherd
- If You Can’t See My Mirrors
- Up In The Dark
- Valkyrie In The Roller Disco
- A Bite Out Of My Bed
- Daughters Of Sorrow
- We End Up Together
I’ve actually had The New Pornographers’ fifth album ‘Together‘ for ages, but I’d never got around to posting a review of it. But I just saw that the MP3 Album over on Amazon is just $3.99 at the moment, so I thought I’d write something quick for it. If you’ve been hesitating to try out The New Pornographers, that price is a total steal. Get it! (I don’t know how long it’ll stay at that price point, maybe two hours from now, it’ll revert back to the normal price).
I loved their previous album ‘Challengers‘ even though some New Pornographers fans weren’t so enthused about it since they felt it was a step back from Twin Cinema or Electric Version. I don’t know, I’ve pretty much loved all their albums so far, so maybe I’m easy 
The thing about all the New Pornographers albums for me though is that I can never really pick out track favorites. And that remains true for me for ‘Together’. The album is so cohesive, that it’s like the entire album is really just one song. And I don’t mean that in a bad way. The songs aren’t exactly clones of each other, and they shouldn’t because they actually have three different lead singers (A.C. Newman, Neko Case and Destroyer’s Dan Bejar) and different people write the songs, but the tracks just seamlessly flow into each other that when I’m listening to the entire album, I can’t really tell when one song starts or ends. Well, except for My Shepherd on this album, but then that’s Neko Case’s fault for being so amazing that the song’s awesomeness is multiplied exponentially just because she’s singing it
| Listen to “My Shepherd” |
Most of the time when you buy an album, there’s like 3-4 songs that are a cut above the rest, and then the rest just feel like fillers. Empty fillers. I never got that feeling on ‘Together’. What you get is a distinctive ‘shiny’ New Pornographers sound that can be manic & bouyant and yet really deep too. There’s clever lyrics, really interesting melodies & hooks and lovely lovely harmonies. And oh yeah, Neko Case’s amazing vocals that I’d love to bottle up and spray on me in the mornings. It’s very artsy, pop-rock with folk thrown in. Just listen to the samples from the album and see if you agree with me!
‘Together‘ is available on Amazon as an MP3 Album ($3.99!) or as an Audio CD ($13.48). You can also download the album on iTunes ($9.99).
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