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The New Pornographers
Left to right: Blaine Thurier, Todd Fancey, Neko Case, Carl Newman, Kurt Dahle, Kathryn Calder, John Collins
Background information
Origin	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Genre(s)	Indie rock, power pop
Years active	1997–present
Label(s)	Matador, Mint, Last Gang
Website	www.thenewpornographers.com
Members
Blaine Thurier Todd Fancey Neko Case Carl Newman Kurt Dahle Kathryn Calder John Collins Dan Bejar

The New Pornographers are a Juno Award-winning Canadian indie rock group formed in 1997 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Their sound is highly influenced by such power pop bands as The Cars and Cheap Trick, although their songs are generally of a greater melodic and harmonic complexity. Carl Newman, who writes most of the band's material, has said, "When I seriously started to try to write songs, my main influences were, like, Burt Bacharach, Jimmy Webb, and Brian Wilson. Those were the guys I kinda looked at their music and went, 'What the hell are they doing here?' I was just fascinated by the structures and the harmonics."^[1] The melody of the first and eponymous track on their second album Electric Version, for instance, begins with an arpeggiated diminished triad—a rare and strange opening flourish for a pop song. The New Pornographers have received a considerable amount of international critical acclaim as well and are one of the most critically acclaimed bands in the world this century. Each of their first three albums has ranked in the top 40 on the Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop year end poll of hundreds of music reviewers. In each year from 2000 to 2006 either a New Pornographers’ album or a solo album from one of the band’s members has ranked in the top 40 on the list, an unprecedented record.^[2] In 2007 Blender magazine ranked The New Pornographers’ first album, Mass Romantic, as the 24th best indie album of all time. It is the second highest Canadian album on the list behind Arcade Fire’s Funeral which came in 6th.^[3] The name of the band was chosen by Newman. It would seem to reflect a quotation attributed to Jimmy Swaggart, who once called Rock and Roll music "the new pornography," although Newman did not know of the quote at the time.^[4] Newman has stated that he came up with the name after watching a Japanese film called The Pornographers.^[5]

The band has released four albums to date: Mass Romantic (2000), Electric Version (2003), Twin Cinema (2005), and Challengers (2007), along with a live album recorded on their 2006 tour that is available only at concerts and on the band's website.

1 Members
2 Discography
- 2.1 Live albums
- 2.2 Singles
3 Contributions
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Members

Dan Bejar of Destroyer and Swan Lake
Kathryn Calder of Immaculate Machine
Neko Case, solo artist, also of Maow and Cub
John Collins of The Evaporators
Kurt Dahle of Limblifter and Age of Electric
Todd Fancey, solo artist (as Fancey) and Limblifter
Carl Newman, solo artist (as A.C. Newman), also of Superconductor and Zumpano
Blaine Thurier, independent filmmaker.

Discography

Mass Romantic (CA: Mint Records; US and EU: Matador Records, 2000)
Electric Version (CA: Mint Records; US and EU: Matador Records, 2003) #196 US
Twin Cinema (CA: Mint Records; US and EU: Matador Records, 2005) #44 US
Challengers (CA: Last Gang Records; US and EU: Matador Records, 2007) #34 US, #13 UK Indie