Get Guilty | A.C. Newman

Music | January 12, 2009

Get Guilty

My review of A.C. Newman’s Get Guilty ran today in the Boston Phoenix. I don’t understand Carl Newman’s strategy. The only difference between his solo output now and his work with the New Pornographers is that he occasionally lets other people sing on the latter. I would assume that a side project would be used to explore new ideas or experiment a bit, shake up the formula. Get Guilty does nothing of the kind; it’s a retread of everything you’ve already heard from Newman, except much more tired and with less passion. How long will people keep buying the same songs? I don’t think for much longer.