The New Pornographers

The New Pornographers are a Canadian Indie Rock group formed in 1997 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Their sound is highly influenced by that of such power-pop bands as The Cars and Cheap Trick; their songs, however, are generally of a greater melodic and harmonic complexity. Carl Newman, who writes about 80 percent of the band's material, has said, "When I seriously started to try to write songs, my main influences were, like, Burt Bacharach, Jim 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."http://www.cokemachineglow.com/feature/interview/newman.html The melody of the first and eponymous track of New Porn's Electric Version, for instance, begins with an arpeggiated diminished triad--a rare and strange opening flourish for a pop song.

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Canadian - Indie Rock - British Columbia - The Cars - Cheap Trick - Burt Bacharach - Jim Webb - Brian Wilson - Arpeggiated - Diminished triad

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The band has released three albums to date: Mass Romantic (2000), Electric Version (2003), and Twin Cinema (2005).

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2000 - 2003 - 2005

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The band members include A.C. Newman, Kurt Dahle, John Collins, Daniel Bejar, Todd Fancey, Neko Case, Kathryn Calder, and Blaine Thurier. Fisher Rose also played drums on some songs in Mass Romantic.

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A.C. Newman - Kurt Dahle - John Collins - Daniel Bejar - Todd Fancey - Neko Case - Kathryn Calder - Blaine Thurier

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The New Pornographers are regarded as a supergroup because of the following members' associations:

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• Carl Newman of the bands Superconductor and Zumpano and for his solo career
• Neko Case of Maow and for her solo career
• Dan Bejar of Destroyer
• John Collins of The Evaporators
• Kurt Dahle of Limblifter and Age of Electric and
• Kathryn Calder of Immaculate Machine.

 
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