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Article: PURE POP FOR NOW PEOPLE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 10, 2004
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The chap who is calling himself A.C. Newman at the moment also
goes by the name Carl Newman when he leads the incredibly cool
Vancouver-based collective known as the New Pornographers. One of the
many things we like about Newman's solo debut album, "The Slow
Wonder," is the amount of information he packs into his textural,
economical songs - 11 of them in about 34 minutes. A.C. makes us
think of another Newman, Wire's Colin Newman. He also brings to mind
the early pop-punk work of Elvis Costello. And just to drop another
name the way we like to do when we find a songwriter blessed with pop
smarts who is somewhat enamored of three-and-four part vocal
harmonies: Brian Wilson and, for you true ...