The New Pornographers have returned with a new single called ‘Ballad of the Last Payphone’. It’s the A-side of a limited 7-inch the band put out via A.C. Newman’s Substack last month, which includes the vinyl-only B-side ‘Ego Death for Beginners’. Take a listen below.
“This song was inspired by a Raymond Carver story called ‘Fat’, and tells the story of a person visiting the last payphone in NYC where it currently sits, in the Museum of the City of New York,” Newman explained in a statement. “The narrator doesn’t know why they are so fascinated by it, but to us it should be obvious. Obvious to me, at least.”
Check out our inspirations interview with the New Pornographers.
