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If you’re a fan of A.C. Newman (and if you aren’t, are you really sure? – perhaps you ought to check again, maybe there is something wrong with your ears?) it might excite you to know that I stumbled upon, via his pert wikipedia entry, this streamable four track CBC radio session from 2005, still available online, with an accompanying magazine-like feature. I expect this appearance was a promotional gig, punting his truly excellent solo LP, “The Slow Wonder”. Buy that now, and then come back when you’re a fanboy, and suddenly very very interested in things like solo radio sessions.

Of particular interest in this session, there’s a rather differently arranged version of ‘Failsafe’, a song which wasn’t included on the solo CD, and has recently popped up, reinvented, with new a Johnny Marr How-Soon-Is-Now alike chugging swampy tremolo backbone, and a sweeter female lead, on the super-excellent new New Pornographers album, “Challengers”.