The New Pornographers have signed with Merge Records.
The New Pornographers have set their new album Continue As A Guest for release on March 31st and introduced it with the lead track Really Really Light, a co-write with Dan Bejar of Destroyer.
“Part of my process throughout the years has been messing with things I never finished,” A.C. Newman said.
“I really liked Dan’s chorus, and for a while I was just trying to write something that I felt like belonged with it. I was thinking of the Aloe Blacc song ‘The Man’ which interpolated the chorus from Elton John’s ‘Your Song’ and thought it would be fun to interpolate a song that no one knows.
“Not trying to sound like Aloe Blacc, just doing some interpolating of my own. It became a game of writing a verse that felt like a part of the same song. In my mind, I was striving for a little Jeff Lynne–era Tom Petty, a classic go-to.”
Continue As A Guest tracklist:
Really Really Light
Pontius Pilate’s Home Movies
Cat and Mouse with the Light
Last and Beautiful
Continue as a Guest
Bottle Episodes
Marie and the Undersea
Angelcover
Firework in the Falling Snow
Wish Automatic Suite