LP - The New Pornographers - Together

1 LP - new reissue on Matador

"Together" is the fifth album from Canadian supergroup, The New Pornographers, featuring Neko Case, Destroyer's Dan Bejar, in addition to bandleader and chief songwriter A.C. Newman, who All Music Guide says "in a perfect world, would be our Elton, our McCartney".

Playing to all their strengths, "Together" combines the freewheeling, glammy spirit of their debut, "Mass Romantic", with some of the very personal, emotional songwriting of their mid 2000s material. As a result, it's an album that aims to please, as exciting for The New Pornographers obsessive as for casual new listeners.

Newman says he’s always had a dream of finding the middle ground between Led Zeppelin and The 5th Dimension, which isn't a bad way to describe "Together"'s mix of deceptively complex songwriting with pop hooks, and arena-rock power. "It's the band's most colourful patchwork to date" (8/10, Paste).