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Look out, home team! On August 21, Matador Records will let the New Pornographers' Challengers take the field. The album is twelve songs long, including nine by Carl Newman and three by Dan Bejar ("Myriad Harbour", "Entering White Cecilia", and "The Spirit of Giving").

Newman, Bejar, Neko Case, and Kathryn Calder all sing on it. "Unguided" is "my first true epic at over 6:30 in length," Newman said in a press release, and on "Entering White Cecilia", "I believe Dan is singing about entering a girl named Cecilia, who is either white or dressed in white, or both. Like all of Dan's work, it is overtly sexual."

Finally, all that stuff about epics and string quartets Newman told us back in April makes sense.

The New Pornos will take their show on the road this summer, hitting England in June before coming back to the States for the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago's Union Park on July 14.

Challengers:

01 My Rights Versus Yours
02 All the Old Showstoppers
03 Challengers
04 Myriad Harbour
05 All the Things That Go to Make Heaven and Earth
06 Failsafe
07 Unguided
08 Entering White Cecilia
09 Go Places
10 Mutiny, I Promise You
11 Adventures in Solitude
12 The Spirit of Giving

New Pornographers dates:

06-18 London, England - Bar Academy
06-19 London, England - Borderline
06-20 London, England - 93 Ft. East
06-22 Pilton, England - Glastonbury Festival
07-04 New York, NY - Battery Park *
07-15 Chicago, IL - Union Park (Pitchfork Music Festival)

* with Midlake
^ with Stephen Malkmus, De La Soul, Of Montreal, Jamie Lidell, Menomena the Sea and Cake, Junior Boys, the Field, Cadence Weapon, the Cool Kids, Klaxons, Nomo, Deerhunter, the Ponys, Craig Taborn's Junk Magic, Brightblack Morning Light, Fred Lonberg-Holm's Lightbox Orchestra