“Brill Bruisers” by The New Pornographers

"Brill Bruisers" is the title track of the sixth album by Canadian indie rockers the New Pornographers, and in 2014 it went out ahead of the record as the first single, setting the mood for what A.C. Newman called a celebration record. After some hard stretches, he said, he had reached a point where nothing was pulling him down, and the music showed it.

Newman wrote it by himself and co-produced it with John Collins, who mixed it with David Carswell. Collins, Carswell and Howard Redekopp did the recording, Redekopp and Kurt Dahle also carry production credits, and Kelly Hogan drops in as a guest singer. Coming from a songwriter fresh out of hard times, it's a title track that throws the doors wide open.

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