The New Pornographers highly anticipated new album The Former Site Of is out today on Merge Records. The tenth studio album from the acclaimed supergroup tells ten short stories of people at personal and societal extremes are collected as meticulously crafted pop songs. The record was first crafted by frontperson A.C. 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).