Their "new" (2007) album Challengers is by turns choral poppy fun and annexed, melancholy solitude. It's title song, Challengers, is so quiet and strong and pretty -- it gives me deja vu in this way that has nothing to do with anything I've lived through. Other highlights are Myriad Harbor which some sly tech person at Improv Asylum has been playing between shows sounds like it should underscore a montage of some mixed up cigarette kids trying on skinny jeans in the East Village, and All The Things That Go to Make Heaven and Earth Are Here will make you want to grab a tambourine. But don't. There's not one around you right now.
I basically love this album and am out of my mind excited that there is now eleven years of work that I get to explore like it's new. Thanks, itunes.
Also, I just finished reading Mick Napier's book for the second time and I think I absorbed a lot more of it this time around. I'm feeling super creative and am very excited to improvise. August, where are you?
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weird....i recently had the same new pornographers experience, almost to a T. heartbreaking and unexplainably reminiscent. they've since been a regular on the btards playlist!
adding to the ones you mentioned, i enjoy go places. reminds me of a breakup i never went through
have you heard the new n. surf yet?
No! Is it great? Song recommendations??
it's pretty great. whose authority is their single, but i like weightless, beautiful beat and ice on the wing
i enjoy "all for swinging you around" by tnp. came out in 2003? 2002? around then.
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