NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
ELECTRIC VERSION (OPAQUE BLUE VINYL) - LP

UPC: 744861055105
Label: MATADOR RECORDS
Format: LP
Release Date: September 22, 2023
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This week, Matador Records will celebrate the 20th anniversary of The New Pornographers’ second full-length, Electric Version – first released May 6, 2003 – with a limited-edition opaque blue vinyl reissue out September 22.

As for the music: no sophomore slumping to be found here. Back then we wrote, “With impossibly huge hooks and an innate understanding of every pop trick in the book, this follow-up to 2000’s breakthrough Mass Romanticis the most exciting pop record we’ve heard in a long while.” For once, tastemakers of the day shared our enthusiasm. “The New Pornographers mix the pop purism of the Beach Boys, the power charge of Cheap Trick and the gentle psychedelia of Syd Barrett,” wrote the New York Times, who labeled Electric Version “Some of the best pop of the year.”

“A striking power-pop album, forty staggeringly catchy minutes of four-part harmonies and wall of sound production, exploding with energy and joy”
– Rolling Stone
“An insanely contagious concoction of new wave, Cheap Trick, and garage-glam pandemonium... the perfect pop album.”
– Entertainment Weekly
“Brains-across-the-dashboard power pop... a group experiment gone right.”
– Spin

TRACKLIST

01. THE ELECTRIC VERSION
02. FROM BLOWN SPEAKERS
03. THE LAWS HAVE CHANGED
04. THE END OF MEDICINE
05. LOOSE TRANSLATION
06. CHUMP CHANGE
07. ALL FOR SWINGING YOU AROUND
08. THE NEW FACE OF ZERO AND ONE
09. TESTAMENT TO YOUTH IN VERSE
10. IT’S ONLY DIVINE RIGHT
11. BALLAD OF A COMEBACK KID
12. JULY JONES
13. MISS TEEN WORDPOWER