i took a plane i took a train/ ah who cares you always end up in the city

Canadians!

So many things to do so many things to see as if ord came early, hah one hand down wont keep me down. If that does not make sense to you then neveryoumind, you are here for the music.

Vancouver based The New Pornographers are back with a new album due out soon, and it sounds their brash kinetic energy has not waned but sounds a bit more.. organic? Try checking your music library, more likely than not you would have ' Twin Cinema' if i have traded songs with you online during the last couple of years.

Normally I do not trust songs that start with falsettos ( sorry beegees, not sorry mika) but here it actually works. Why? I blame the utterly sweet yet scything refrain that comes immediately after it, and one cant really go wrong with such addictive twangy guitars to seal it cant you?

Thankfully, this attitude is carried along well throughout the song, an ode to New York City probably reflecting her kind of spirit. An indomitable lunging spirit laced with a little happy sarcasm, or at least that's what I gather. Songs like these speak more of the city than any ' national song', dont they? And I rather much prefer them too.

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - MYRAID HARBOUR