Electric Version by The New Pornographers

Electric Version, the New Pornographers' second album, came out on Mint Records on May 6, 2003, and the Vancouver collective floored the pedal where Mass Romantic left off. This is power pop tuned for maximum sugar rush, stacked voices and choruses piled on choruses, from a lineup crowded with songwriters: A.C. Newman, Neko Case, Daniel Bejar, John Collins, Blaine Thurier, Kurt Dahle and new recruit Todd Fancey on guitar. "The Laws Have Changed" shows how the trick works, every hook elbowing the next one out of the way.

Critics ate it up. It placed number seven in the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop poll for 2003, and in 2009 Rolling Stone ranked it 79th among the decade's 100 best albums. The title track even made it into the video game Rock Band as a song you could play along to, having nearly been dropped.

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