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Electric Version - The New Pornographers
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8.3 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 24 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 24
  3. Negative: 1 out of 24

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  1. MiloM
    Jul 3, 2003
    9
    If this doesn't reach you, you really *are* dead to the world. The Bejar stuff is ok, particularly "Chump Change", but I'm humming the Newman powerpop pieces incessantly -- can't get enough.
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  2. [Anonymous]
    May 3, 2003
    10
    Brilliant. Unfolds and rewards with repeated listens. Easily in the top 3 albums of the year.
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  3. Jennie
    May 7, 2003
    10
    I've never heard an album that digs its claws so deep. And follow the lyrics...they'll take you somewhere you've never imagined. Genius.
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  4. LynnA
    Jun 6, 2003
    3
    Based on reviews, ought this album with great anticipation. Tastes certainly differ because I'd rename this band the "New Snore-nographers." A tepid, exhaustingly derivative bit of fluff.
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  5. Joe
    Jun 5, 2003
    7
    It's pleasant enough. This one is more consistent, but I have to agree with Josh T. Letter From An Occupant was a great song, and I unfairly wanted a song just as good on the new one.
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  6. LukeM.
    May 14, 2003
    4
    The hooks on this album all seem like they should take hold, but then they don't. The songs are well-constructed, but end up sounding the same and like weaker versions of the stuff on the great "Mass Romantic."
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  7. JoshT
    May 22, 2003
    9
    Splendid stuff! I still love Mass Romantic slightly more, I think (there's just no topping Letter from an Occupant *sigh*), but that's hardly a knock to Electric Version. This album is nearly as infectious and arguably even more accomplished.
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  8. SandySun
    May 4, 2003
    10
    These guys and gal are geniuses. I can't stop listening. I won't stop listening.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  9. aw
    Jun 14, 2003
    9
    The New Pornographers capture what it truly means to be a supergroup. The hooks on Electric Version straight up impale your skin and reel you in. I couldn't ask for a better album to kick start a summer.
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  10. TroyP.
    Jul 22, 2003
    10
    A plethora of amazing tracks, a wealth of hooks, and more energy than anything else you will hear this year. "Miss Teen Wordpower" and "All for Swinging You Around" are both high points on an album with no valleys.
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  11. IanG
    Jan 8, 2004
    9
    As good as Mass Romantic IMO, with 'All For Swinging You Around' the highlight, one of the best feel-good songs I've ever heard. 'Miss Teen Wordpower' and 'The Laws Have Changed' aren't far behind, while 'Testament To Youth In Verse' is this album's Execution Day (i.e. skip-fodder).
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  12. BenD
    Sep 23, 2005
    9
    With song after song of bouncy pop goodness, Electirc Version will brighten up anyone's day.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  13. Jared
    Feb 20, 2006
    10
    Maybe not so Duh! that it's a 10 but this band to me is perfection.
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  14. GinaP
    Apr 12, 2007
    10
    Beyond amazing album. Althogh it has their usual sound, you don't hear what you would expect to. They put more "umph" into this album. Carl Newman has never sounded better.
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  15. JordanA
    May 15, 2003
    9
    I have played this record through over 50 times now and its got a dynamic thats like a detailed miniature world within a thin plane of production. The lush sounds punch in and out for crisp relief and support of complex melodies. Its a sonic creme brulee. If there is one complaint, its the passion Newman has in Divine Right not finding its way into a couple more tracks. Lyrical ambiguity allows some ideas to slip by listeners in the sweet melodies. Dan's Chump Change is a funny slap at the squabbles of too smart for their own good indie vanguard. Some of Nekos best work on this record is in her pining backgroud vocals on Blown Speakers and the yet to be revealed meanings of the Laws have Changed. John Collins has engineered the best record You can make via computer and may have set a bar for indie records production to come. The real juice of this record will be revealed in the live performances.… Expand
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Metascore
82 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 22 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. Nude As The News
    90
    This is fun, fun, fun stuff -- one of the year’s best albums, no doubt.
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  2. Splendid
    80
    Electric Version does little to alter the successful New Pornographers formula. It's a longer, louder and (most importantly) more assured album than its predecessor, but if you liked Mass Romantic, you won't be disappointed. And if you disliked Mass Romantic, you may have a difficult time telling the two albums apart.
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  3. Alternative Press
    80
    The kind of album that functions as both background BBQ beat and windows-down sing-along. [Jul 2003, p.112]
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