Album · The New Pornographers
Continue as a Guest by The New Pornographers
Continue as a Guest is an album by The New Pornographers, released in 2023. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Really Really Light”, on 5 lists with a best position of #34.
Continue as a Guest, the New Pornographers' ninth studio album, arrived on Merge Records on March 31, 2023, the follow-up to In the Morse Code of Brake Lights. The Vancouver collective that started in 1997 as a supergroup of songwriters on loan from other projects had thinned out by now, but the core held: Carl Newman steering on vocals and guitar, Neko Case's voice slicing through the mix, John Collins on bass, Todd Fancey on guitar, Kathryn Calder on keyboards and harmonies, and Joe Seiders behind the kit.
It's still a record built on stacked voices and power-pop sugar, though the rush has settled into something more sidelong and patient, hooks that sneak up on you instead of kicking the door in. Critics were kind, the band pushed a string of singles from it and took it on tour, and it turned out to be Seiders' last album with them; the band fired him in 2025.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Continue as a Guest on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Really Really Light | 5 | #34 | – | 2023 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.