Electric Version (studio album) by The New Pornographers

From Brad1770 06/01/2021 00:44

Honestly, if there is an artist with a more consistent catalogue its hard to think of one. This ones another outstanding album from an outstanding supergroup

Solid album. It's lacking a big hit for me, but other than that, it's nice to listen from start to end, it's so full of joy, and all are quality songs

Best songs: The Laws Have Changed, It's Only Divine Right, Miss Teen Wordpower, Electric Version, New Face of Zero and One

This album is super great. Every song is super catchy yet complicated in its own way. This band influenced a lot of the Vancouver Indie scene and this record is by far their best.

From pearljammer13 10/18/2014 00:42

The only problem with this band is that sometimes Dan Bejar feels the need to sing. Otherwise they are crazy good. Like my favorite song "From Blown Speakers" proclaims, it came out magical.

From Antonio-Pedro 03/09/2014 20:54

Great album, All the songs are uplifting and simply complicated. It is an union between the easy and the hard creating the Lovely and funny.

A.C. Newman, Neko Case, Dan Bejar, Todd Fancey... all have done great solo stuff... The NP's aren't fair really. They are terrific, and Electric Version is arguably their best record.

From jhuik 06/23/2012 16:28

I don't find this nearly as likable as Twin Cinema or their latest, Together, but you have to love the (let's-sing-a-round!) close out of Testament to Youth in Verse.

From junodog4 05/08/2012 03:49

The New Pornographers are masters of catchy, fun, original pop-rock. Don't let the toe-tappingness fool you into thinking this is simple or lacking genius. These guys are the Big Star of the 2000s.

From ~SMiLE~ 03/07/2012 16:39

What a fun album! Cheery guitars, loopy keyboards, and shrewd constructed ditties. Surging with contagious power pop energy and wit, this is a wonderful collection of catchy, lush, sing-a-longs songs.

From paladisiac 12/11/2011 02:58

Each song sounds like 2-to-3-or-more choruses are packed in. The title track kicks off proclaiming "The sound of God is the screech of tires, lights and magnets, bolts and wires, strayed from the road" with a chorus that states god is "streaming out of the magnets". Then next song: "So can you tell me why in every version of the events shown here, there's another season that crawls by like years, from blown speakers clear? It came out magical." But the party truly starts with track #3, "the laws have changed", immersing one of the chorus's neko glory throughout especially when she's ready to "form a line". Then there's the neko-helmed "all for swinging you around" ("We're twisting incognito with no time, can't talk, can't tell / if this is fantasy or culture shock") -- makes me want to be swung around by neko. Both of those songs are pure indie pop gold. "Chump change" is retro-groovy with its "ooh oohs". When this group nails it, they nail it -- like on "it's only divine right" and its "come true" neko-laced chorus and guitar-interjections. Often their choruses are one-word lyrics, but it's so damn catchy you almost don't notice, like with "july jones" sporting "One of the greats, on the way, hold on." (w/neko!) chorus before the other "Behind the daylight, who knew what it could feel like? " chorus, not to mention the seducing "ooh la la"'s. Or on closer "miss teen wordpower", with AC & (a belting) Neko weaving "because nobody knows the wreck of the soul the way you do" and the song title into chorus before spinning into the third chorus "So we float through the streets, breathe city lights, claims of the crown forgotten". This is the pop that should be all over the radio.