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The Creative Onus is on Carl Newman, For Now<\/h1>\n

The loss of a major songwriter would sideline most bands. But the New Pornographers are not like most bands. In fact, in one sense, they\u2019re not really a band. The group, formed in Canada in 1997, self-identifies as an open, changeable collective, a rotating indie dream team made up of members of several exalted underground rock acts and topped off with the soaring voice of an alt-country queen. Throughout their nearly two-decade existence, the outfit\u2019s songwriting duties have been split between singer and guitarist Carl Newman (AKA A. C. Newman, the de facto leader) and singer and multi-instrumentalist Dan Bejar.<\/p>\n

But for the making of their seventh studio album, Whiteout Conditions<\/i><\/a>, released in April, and their subsequent promo tour, Bejar elected to sit things out and continue concentrating on his own band, Destroyer. This put the creative onus largely on the shoulders of Newman, who wrote all the tunes for the new album <\/i>and has steered the mighty pop juggernaut back onto the road for summer dates in North America and Europe. (At press time, the band isn\u2019t scheduled to perform in the New York City area, but will be in Boston on July 21, Montreal on July 23, Buffalo on July 25, and New Haven, Connecticut, on July 27.)\u00a0 <\/span>So is it weird for Newman to be the only one writing the songs this time out? Has Bejar\u2019s break given him pause?<\/p>\n

\u201cNot as much as people think, really,\u201d says Newman. \u201cDan\u2019s been a friend of mine for a long time and there\u2019s always been a certain dynamic with the way we work. Like, right after we made our first album [Mass Romantic<\/i>, 2000], Dan suddenly announced that he was moving to Spain. We thought we\u2019d lost him, but then he ended up coming back in time for the next album. With this one, Dan\u2019s absence mainly meant that there were, like, three more songs for me to write this time. But that\u2019s how it is, we\u2019re used to people coming and going and having different lineups. For this tour, we were lucky to get [founding singer] Neko Case\u2014there\u2019ve been other times when our tours conflicted with hers and we had to go out without her.\u201d<\/p>\n

The New Pornographers began as somewhat of a lark in Newman\u2019s native Vancouver in 1998. It was then and there that the front man, already known for his work with grunge punks Superconductor and pop revisionists Zumpano, began bouncing around the idea of starting an \u201call-star\u201d project with Case, Bejar, drummer Fisher Rose (soon replaced by Limblifter\u2019s Kurt Dahle), Evaporators bassist John Collins, and synthesizer player Blaine Thurier. \u201cWe\u2019d all been\u00a0talking<\/i>\u00a0about starting a project together for so long that no one we told about it thought we\u2019d ever actually do it,\u201d explains Newman. \u201cThey were all, like, \u2018Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. You guys keep talking about this band you\u2019re gonna start, blah blah blah.\u2019 So we had the idea before we ever got together to play, and we felt like we kind of\u00a0had<\/i>\u00a0to deliver after a certain point.\u201d<\/p>\n\"new<\/a>\n

And deliver they did. Mass Romantic<\/i>, the New Pornographers\u2019 debut, a spirit-lifting burst of \u201960s sunshine harmonies, slashing power pop guitars, and swirling, Day-Glo keyboards, arrived in 2000, won a Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year, and generally sent critics into a giddy tizzy\u2014a spell no doubt helped by Case\u2019s concurrently exploding solo career. By the 2001 South by Southwest music festival, the unit was the toast of indiedom, and such was their status as new keepers of the classic pop flame that Ray Davies himself joined them on stage at the convention to perform, quite appropriately, the Kinks\u2019 \u201cStarstruck.\u201d The group signed to indie powerhouse Matador Records and more masterful albums followed as their fanbase grew: Electric Version<\/i><\/a> (2003),\u00a0Twin Cinema<\/a> (2005)<\/i>, Challengers<\/a> (2007)<\/i>, and\u00a0Together (2010).<\/i><\/p>\n

Woodstock Influences<\/h1>\n

Having done their time in Brooklyn, Newman and his wife bought a place in Woodstock and moved upstate in April 2009. \u201cI\u2019m amazed at how much I\u2019ve come to like the solitude,\u201d the songwriter says. \u201cI was afraid I might feel like a fish out of water, but I just keep meeting more and more cool local musicians.\u201d His growing list of local collaborators includes folk legend Happy Traum, keyboardist Marco Benevento, and folk rock duo Mike & Ruthy.<\/p>\n

Not long after the 2014 release of the New Pornographers\u2019 Brill Bruisers<\/i><\/a>, Newman met and began jamming with another cool local: singer-songwriter and violinist Simi Stone. \u201cCarl and I did some Neil Young songs together for a Woodstock Day School benefit concert, and our harmonies just sounded so great,\u201d recalls Stone, who fronted New York band Suffrajet before herself moving to Woodstock, where she performed with the Duke & the King and began a rising solo career. Newman recruited her for the New Pornographers in July 2015. Although she doesn\u2019t appear on Whiteout Conditions<\/i>, <\/i>she\u2019s found the experience of singing alongside Newman, Case, and the others to be a revelatory departure from her own self-described \u201cmountain Motown\u201d music. \u201cI\u2019m really honored to be included,\u201d she says. \u201c[The New Pornographers\u2019 music] is a lot more complex than mine, but I took to it really fast. It feels as good playing it as it does listening to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, while spinning Whiteout Conditions,<\/i> it\u2019s not hard to imagine how good it must feel to perform such songs as \u201cPlay Money,\u201d whose percolating pop perfection is marked by Case\u2019s cresting lead vocal, or the driving \u201cHigh Ticket Attractions,\u201d which Newman admits was fueled by the anxiety he felt during the 2016 presidential election (\u201cthe Magna Carta \/ it\u2019s under water \/ We left it there for the sons and the daughters\u201d). \u201cIt was hard to avoid any of that stuff sneaking into the music, the shock that the country could be so stupid as to elect someone like Donald Trump,\u201d he says, adding that the threat to his family\u2019s health insurance via the administration\u2019s vow to repeal the Affordable Care Act has been especially troubling. \u201cIt made us think of moving to Canada\u2014seriously,\u201d says Newman. \u201cIt\u2019s, like, what is the end game here? For us to be paying $2,000 a month until we die just so we can have health insurance?\u201d<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Trump and the GOP\u2019s attempts at eradicating the advances in health coverage put forth under President Obama have, so far, foundered. And, thankfully, Newman, along with his wife and five-year-old son, is staying put in the Hudson Valley, where he plans to continue creating transcendent music. But by no means does Newman take the New Pornographers\u2019 exploding success for granted. The band\u2019s trajectory has been \u201camazing,\u201d he says. \u201cReally, I was just happy that we were able to sell out Brownie\u2019s. That would\u2019ve been enough for me.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\"the\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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