The New Pornographers’ frontman Carl Newman wrote Shut Down the Streets after his mother’s death and before his son’s birth, and as open and airy as these songs sound, they are also anchored by weighty lyrics about indecision and ambiguity. In other words, the album’s cover, featuring Newman standing in a spacious glade surrounded by […]
About David Brusie
David Brusie is a Boston-based writer and musician. He is a writer for and co-founder of Music (for Robots), and his reviews, interviews, and essays have appeared in The Boston Herald, The Boston Phoenix, The A.V. Club, City Pages, Tiny Mix Tapes, and Vita.MN.