History Music / TheNewPornographers

* RealTrailerFakeMovie: The video for "Moves" is a trailer for a non-existent {{Biopic}} of the band, [[WTHCastingAgency with the members played by actors who look nothing like them]], and an improbable plot full of SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll.

* InTheStyleOf: "My Rights Versus Yours" is done in the style of mid-late sixties Music/TheBeachBoys. The band also held a Website/YouTube contest promoting ''Challengers'' [[IncrediblyLamePun challenging]] fans to cover their own songs in the [[WebVideo/YachtRock really smooth]] style of Michael [=McDonald=].

* WordSaladLyrics: Again, A.C. Newman's songs often end up like this. [[UpToEleven And then there's Dan Bejar...]]

* AbsenteeActor: ''Whiteout Conditions'' is their first album without Dan Bejar - Officially, he didn't leave the group, he just sat this one out to work on new Destroyer material. Bejar was once again absent from 2019's ''In The Morse Code of Brake Lights'', and his status within the band remains ambiguous.

* Neko Case (solo, and also Maow, Corn Sisters and Cub) - Vocals

* UncommonTime: "Mutiny, I Promise You" does this twice: The verses and instrumental riffs add an extra half-measure every four, and the chorus is in 5/4.

** Dan Bejar sometimes does this with his songs, but more often his lyrics are very much representative of his work as Destroyer. [[CloudCuckooLander In which case, it's a very weird world he lives in.]] [[CrazyAwesome Enough to create a drinking game out of it.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: Notably averted by the title track from "Challengers", which is about two people realizing they're falling in love with each other despite both of them being in relationships with someone else. They agree to leave it be until those other relationships have run their course.

** There's a common misconception that their name is an ironic reference to evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, [[TheNewRockAndRoll who once called rock and roll "the new pornography"]]; A.C Newman claims he'd never heard the quote before he started the band, and was instead inspired by ''The Pornographers'', a Japanese BlackComedy film from 1966.

* AbsenteeActor: ''Whiteout Conditions'' is their first album without Dan Bejar - He didn't leave the group, he just sat this one out to work on new Destroyer material. Bejar was once again absent from 2019's ''In The Morse Code of Brake Lights'', and his status within the band remains ambiguous.

* EarWorm: Discussed in "Sing Me Spanish Techno", whose chorus mentions "Listening too long to one song".

* EarWorm: {{invoked}} Discussed in "Sing Me Spanish Techno", whose chorus mentions "Listening too long to one song".

Most songs are written by Newman (and most of ''those'' have him on lead vocals), with Bejar (who almost always sings his own songs) and Collins making a few contributions on most albums.

* AbsenteeActor: ''Whiteout Conditions'' is their first album without Dan Bejar - He didn't leave the group, he just sat this one out to work on new Destroyer material.

** Dan Bejar shouts out Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's Theatre/HMSPinafore, of all things, in "If You Can't See My Mirrors." In true Bejar fashion, none of the other lyrics have anything to do with that.

* VocalTagTeam: A.C. Newman, Dan Bejar, and Neko Case have rotated lead vocal duties since the beginning, with Kathryn taking the lead a few times on their later albums. On several songs it's hard to tell who the "lead" is, as it will switch between the verse and chorus, or multiple people will be singing in unison.

* EarWorm: Discussed in "Sing Me Spanish Techno", whose chorus mentions "Listening too long to one song". (That and a large number of their other songs definitely fall under the trope.)

* RealSongThemeTune: ''Series/TheHourCBC'' previously used "Use It" (off of ''Twin Cinema'') before switching to "The Good In Everyone" by Sloan.

* UncommonMeter: "Mutiny, I Promise You" does this twice: The verses and instrumental riffs add an extra half-measure every four, and the chorus is in 5/4.

Most songs are written by Newman, with Bejar and Collins making a few contributions on most albums.

* CanadaEh

** Dan Bejar name-drops Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's Theatre/HMSPinafore, of all things, in "If You Can't See My Mirrors." In true Bejar fashion, none of the other lyrics have anything to do with that.
* SingerNamedrop: Sort of. Dan Bejar namedrops his bandmates Carl (Newman) and John (Collins) in the first verse of "Myriad Harbour."