The New Pornographers return with new single “Spooky Action,” the latest single off their forthcoming album The Former Site Of available March 27 on Merge Records. “Spooky Action” draws inspiration from the Cassini-Huygens mission, a NASA satellite which orbited Saturn for 13 years before diving into the planet and destroying itself. Frontperson A.C. Newman sings, “And I see the lone propeller, labor of moonlets, then one last turn… to take in Titan, the famous giant, the burning god // Oh have you seen the stray arc of Daphnis, at Keeler’s edge, the way that it’s meant to be seen?”

The band will kick off their U.S. tour on April 22 at The Wilbur in Boston with stops at New York’s Webster Hall, Los Angeles’ Teragram Ballroom, Chicago’s The Metro, Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club and many more, with support from Will Sheff of Okkervil River. Tickets are available now at thenewpornographers.com, full details and a list of dates can be found below.

On The Former Site Of, the tenth studio album from the acclaimed supergroup, ten short stories of people at personal and societal extremes are collected as meticulously crafted pop songs. The record was first crafted by Newman in his home studio before being brought to the band, composed of Newman, Kathryn Calder, Neko Case, John Collins and Todd Fancey. The group is joined for the first time by storied session drummer Charley Drayton (Divinyls, The Rolling Stones, Fiona Apple). Josh Wells (Destroyer, Black Mountain) will join as the touring drummer for the band’s upcoming dates in the Spring.

Of the making of the album, Newman notes, “Having time in my studio really opened things up. I don’t like wasting my bandmates’ time, and always felt guilty when I’d give them a song, ask them to do something, then completely change the song and ask them to do it again. Now I can get the skeleton of a song together first—just a couple of elements, the key feeling, really as little as possible—before bringing it to the band and running from there.”

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