WHITEOUT CONDITIONS | THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS

7.15.17 It would be cool if the West country highly populated Canadian super group, these guys, had an all out slap-fight brawl with the East country highly populated Canadian super group Arcade Fire.

This has all the great hooks of any New Pornographers album. While not quite the effort of '05s Twin Cinema I would say it easily stands in the top 3 in their body of work. 

Stacey Anderson @ Pitchfork: Coming-of-age movies from the 1980s are joyous, singular quests of the ego. This explains their largely teen viewership—it helps to have archetypes to parse while determining your own identity. It can be comforting to hit the prom by proxy in a Pepto-pink tulle puff, or step into the shoes of a glib slacker as he leads a parade through downtown Chicago; . . .