Via Aversion:
Fans of literate, heartbreaking Canadian indie pop have reason to celebrate: a new Weakerthans album should be out by the end of the year. The band is currently in the studio with producer Ian Blurton finishing up the as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2003's Reconstruction Site. As with that last one, this new album will be released by Anti.
If you don't know the band and you think I was trying to be somewhat insulting with all the qualifiers I used in that first sentence, trust me, I wasn't. As a sometimes-aspiring writer myself, John Sampson of The Weakerthans is up there with Dylan or Leonard Cohen as people that, when I hear one of their songs, I want to give up on every trying to write again, as nothing I could ever produce could be that good. Seriously. Go back and listen to "Plea from a Cat Named Virtute," "Everything Must Go!," or "My Favourite Chords" and see if their emotionality don't break you down into tiny pieces.