The New Pornographers, All Songs Considered Set, DC 9.30 Club, March 6, 2006

Just before the Belle and Sebastian set, Canada's awesomest indie power pop gurus, the New Pornographers, played a set. Sounds like they totally shred. Here's some facts about the set gathered from the NPR website.

1) New Pornographers singer Neko Case is not on this tour. For this performance the band was also without backup vocalist Kathryn Calder, who was suffering from a case of laryngitis.

2) A.C. Newman says: "The new album's sound was informed by a number of other groups. Various unintentional influences have crept into our work, some of which were quickly removed: The Moody Blues, Tubeway Army, Wings, always Wings, never The Beatles, Eno of course, you can't play ebow (a bow for electric guitars) without sounding like Eno, Modern English, middle period post-Gabriel Genesis, The Stranglers, 10CC. We're still trying to find a way to insert some dub/white reggae in the mix, just as an intellectual exercise, to see if we can do it without being dropped from the label. I know it sounds awful but it will all work out."

Now the goods. I converted this from RA, took out some of the background noise, de-reverbed it, graphically equalized it, tweaked the bass and treble, monomized it, master gained it, and applied a wet mix. Guess this is why Mr. or Ms. Anonymous wants me to get a life! Well, played it for my Gift to see if she could tell the tweaked from the original and she thought it was all "loud noise!" This explains why she loves Coldplay and won't go to the "will be dope" Franz Ferdinand show with me.

Twin Cinema (sonic variations, appears the sound guy was tweaking stuff. Worry not, he gets it right before the song plays out)
Use It
July Jones
Jackie
Graceland
From Blown Speakers
The End of Medicine
Testament to Youth in Verse
The Body Says No
Breakin' the Law
The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism
The Bleeding Heart Show
Sing Me Spanish Techno

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