https://blog.guernier.nz/blog/review/Recent content in Review on Tom Guernier's BlogHugoen-NZCopyright © 2026, Tom Guernier.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:11:24 +0000https://blog.guernier.nz/the-former-site-of-review/Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:11:24 +0000https://blog.guernier.nz/the-former-site-of-review/<iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=354691281/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=2615980425/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://thenewpornos.bandcamp.com/album/the-former-site-of">The Former Site Of The New Pornographers</a></iframe> <p>I have a confession to make. Despite being a 26 year old who came of age with YouTube Let&rsquo;s Play videos and Tumblr blogs, I actually have the music taste of a circa-2006 hipster. I listen to more recent music as well of course<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> , but most of the music I listen to is firmly rooted in the 1990s/2000s indie rock scene. To justify which I could possibly construct a argument that the technological and cultural factors of that era were particularly conducive to a flowering of multifarious cultural movements and genres (and by contrast, the current ultra-omnipresent social media mediated world really kinda isn&rsquo;t <a href="https://asteriskmag.com/issues/12/is-the-internet-making-culture-worse">in a bad way</a>), but that&rsquo;s a post for another time. This time I&rsquo;m just here to do a humble album review.</p>