The New Pornographers - Brill BruisersMatador Records release Brill Bruisers, The New Pornographers highly anticipated new album this summer. Brill Bruisers is the first new release in four years from the acclaimed supergroup, who have been called virtually peerless in the world of power pop and indie rock by NPR Music. Additionally, the New Yorker described the bands music as magnificent and clever while Stereogum proclaimed in recent history, no group has featured so much formidable

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new bassist Rosko Gee largely leads the group

their sound comes from the same primordial ooze that spawned big apple legends like the new york dolls

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the band completed work on a debut cassette

Drawing on hundreds of years of musical and cultural strength

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Curtis was the debut solo album from former Impressions vocalist Curtis Mayfield and saw him moving away from the doo-wop and R&B of his former band into much more funky and psychedelic territory

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