Title: Are you SURE this isn't a New Pornographers album?
Product review: Except for the lovely ballad "Come Crash", A.C. Newman's solo album could easily pass for a New Pornographers album. John Collins and Dave Carswell are on board, and Sarah Wheeler fills the Neko Case role on backup vocals. The guitars are not turned up to their maximum legal crunchiness here, and there's less keyboard, but otherwise the sound is very similar. Some of the rhythms have been done before--for example, "On the Table" sounds a lot like "The Electric Version". But overall, the songs are still catchier than they have any right to be. My favorites are "Miracle Drug", "Drink to Me, Babe, Then", "Come Crash", and "The Town Halo". Yours may be different, because there isn't a bad cut on the album.(1=poor 2=mediocre 3=pretty good 4=very good 5=phenomenal)
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