The New Pornographers announce new single “Angelcover” | New LP “Continue As A Guest” out March 31st on Merge

 

 

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS SHARENEW SONG “ANGELCOVER”

NEW LP “CONTINUE AS A GUEST” OUT MARCH 31ST ON MERGE RECORDS

 

 

The New Pornographers are debuting their new track “Angelcover” today in anticipation of their forthcoming album Continue as a Guest, their first for Merge Records, due for release on March 31st.

“I pictured this one as a weird little George Saunders-esque sketch, a snapshot,” explains frontperson A.C. Newman. “I found myself a lot more concerned with performance and/or delivery, changing melody and phrasing to get a better performance, less concerned, less precious about the original melody or lyric that I wrote. With that in mind, I had the idea of angels visiting me in the night with the message that ‘melody ain’t got nothing on delivery.’ Kind of a fever dream, where feelings take on their own personality and shape.”

The band previously shared the record’s first single, “Really Really Light,” alongside a Christian Cerezo-directed video;

The album is available to pre-save/pre-order HERE.

Newman began work on Continue as a Guest at his Woodstock, New York home over the course of a year, after the band had just finished touring behind 2019’s In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights. During the writing and recording process, he discovered new lyrical, artistic and sonic approaches experimenting with his own vocal register.

The 10-track record is produced by Newman and features compatriots Neko Case, Kathryn CalderJohn CollinsTodd Fancey and Joe Seiders as well as contributions from saxophonist Zach Djanikian and co-writes from Dan Bejar (Destroyer) and Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Ortiz, Sad13). 

The album tackles themes of isolation and collapse, following the ambivalence of day-to-day life during the pandemic and the endless pitfalls of living online. But Newman says that Continue as a Guest’s title track also addresses the continually rolling concerns that come with being in a band for so long. “The idea of continuing as a guest felt very apropos to the times,” he explains. “Feeling out of place in culture, in society—not feeling like a part of any zeitgeist, but happy to be separate and living your simple life, your long fade-out.  Find your own little nowhere, find some space to fall apart, continue as a guest.”

The New Pornographers have previously released eight studio albums, including their classic debut, Mass Romantic, reissued in 2021 to celebrate the 21st anniversary of its premiere. Their latest, In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights, debuted at #2 on the Billboard Alternative Chart, #6 on the Billboard Rock Chart and #15 on the Billboard Album Chart. It was hailed as “infectious” by NPR, while Rolling Stone praised “the Canadian power-pop crew keeps cranking out songs where the hooks-per-minute ratio is almost unseemly.”

 

 

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERSCONTINUE AS A GUESTOUT MARCH 31ST ON MERGE

Really Really Light

Pontius Pilate’s Home Movies

Cat and Mouse with the Light

Last and Beautiful

Continue as a Guest

Bottle Episodes

Marie and the Undersea

Angelcover

Firework in the Falling Snow

Wish Automatic Suite

 

 

 

 

 

 

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