The New Pornographers have shared the digital launch of their 2025 vinyl-only single “Ballad of the Last Payphone.” The monitor was the A-side to the one “Ego Loss of life for Rookies,” with each cuts marking the band’s first new songs since 2023. “Ballad of the Final Payphone” arrives with an animated video by Michael Arthur. Test it out beneath.
“Ballad of the Final Payphone” is an homage to the final current payphone in New York Metropolis. The band’s A.C. Newman mentioned in press supplies: “This track was impressed by a Raymond Carver story referred to as ‘Fats,’ and tells the story of an individual visiting the final payphone in NYC the place it at present sits, within the Museum of the Metropolis of New York. The narrator doesn’t know why they’re so fascinated by it, however to us it ought to be apparent. Apparent to me, a minimum of.”
There are nonetheless restricted portions of the hand-numbered “Ballad of the Final Payphone”/Ego Loss of life For Rookies” 7″. The vinyl single is offered to Vinyl Membership tier members of Newman’s Substack.
The New Pornographers launched their most up-to-date album Continue as a Guest in 2023.
