A Great Day for Hockey (and New Pornorgaphers' MP3)

[mp3] The New Pornographers: "Your Hands (Together)"

Even though The New Pornographers' Canadian counterparts, including lead cry-baby Sid "The Kid" Crosby, couldn't put away upstart team USA in hockey last night in Vancouver, The Matablog this morning premiered the Pornographers' excellent new track "Your Hands (Together)" from their upcoming LP Together (May 4). (Preorder the album and get a free 7″ and a free poster)

So with a killer new track on the hi fi, a US Hockey win, and a dominating Alex Ovechkin hit on Jagr, we move into this week with renewed vigor. Cover art and tracklist for Together after the jump.


1. Moves
2. The Crash Years
3. Your Hands (Together)
4. Silver Jenny Dollar
5. Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk
6. My Shepherd
7. If You Can’t See My Mirrors
8. Up In The Dark
9. Valkyrie In The Roller Disco
10. A Bite Out Of My Bed
11. Daughters Of Sorrow
12. We End Up Together

New New Pornographers

Coming on May 4: the new album from The New Pornographers, entitled Together. Their fifth full-length was produced by the band and Phil Palazzolo, and recorded in Vancouver, Brooklyn, Woodstock, and Catskill, NY. The album is comprised of 9 A.C. Newman songs and 3 Dan Bejar numbers, and features the full eight-person lineup of Carl, Dan, John Collins, Neko Case, Kurt Dahle, Kathryn Calder, Todd Fancey and Blaine Thurier. Additional musicians include Annie Clark (St. Vincent), Zach Condon (Beirut), Will Sheff (Okkervil River), and the Dap-Kings Horns, among other talents.

You don’t need us to tell you the album is great… but we’ll say it anyway. It’s amazing, more varied, deeper, and broader than its predecessors. Please just look forward to extreme enjoyment. First MP3 coming soon.

Via Matablog!