New Pornographers: Challengers : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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For seven years, the New Pornographers have been one of Canada's best rock exports, turning out a series of records that recycled Seventies AM hits and worked up winning exuberance without sounding cheesy or generic. Challengers, the Vancouver group's fourth album, is slower and more thoughtful, but mostly it keeps up the hook-pumped, harmony-chocked power pop modestly tricked out with strings and keyboards. It's hard to imagine Challengers taking up iPod space for too long -- the tunes feel a little disposable -- but the vaguely British "My Rights Versus Yours" and the somnambulant "Failsafe" are some of the sweetest songs you'll hear all summer.

CHRISTIAN HOARD

(Posted: Aug 23, 2007)

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My Rights Versus Yours (track not available in Rhapsody)
All The Old Showstoppers (track not available in Rhapsody)
Challengers (track not available in Rhapsody)
Myriad Harbour (track not available in Rhapsody)
All The Things That Go To Make Heaven And Earth (track not available in Rhapsody)
Failsafe (track not available in Rhapsody)
Unguided (track not available in Rhapsody)
Entering White Cecilia (track not available in Rhapsody)
Go Places (track not available in Rhapsody)
Mutiny, I Promise You (track not available in Rhapsody)
Adventures In Solitude (track not available in Rhapsody)
The Spirit Of Giving (track not available in Rhapsody)