A.C. Newman's Guilty Pleasure

11/27/08 3:50pm

A.C. Newman (but you can call him Carl) has revealed more details about his second solo album, Get Guilty.

The Jan. 20 Last Gang Records release from The New Pornographers main man follows his 2004 solo debut, The Slow Wonder. The first single is "The Palace At 4 A.M.," which name-checks a Donald Barthelme short story. The song title is also shared with a 2002 album by former Wilco member Jay Bennett and Edward Burch and a 1932 Alberto Giacometti sculpture.

You can hear album opener "There Are Maybe Ten Or Twelve..." on Newman's MySpace page.

Drummers Jon Wurster (Superchunk, Mountain Goats) and Charles Burst helped out on Get Guilty, as did singer Nicole Atkins and Mates Of State. The album also features an array of strings, horns and woodwinds recorded at the Seaside Lounge with Phil Palazzo in Newman's adopted hometown of Brooklyn, N.Y.

Newman will launch a lengthy North American tour in February, right around the time that his cover of A-Ha's "Take On Me" appears on a Starbucks Valentine's Day compilation.

Here are the songs on Get Guilty:

"There Are Maybe Ten Or Twelve..."
"The Heartbreak Rides"
"Like A Hitman, Like A Dancer"
"Prophets"
"Submarines Of Stockholm"
"Thunderbolts"
"The Palace At 4 A.M."
"The Changeling (Get Guilty)"
"Elemental"
"Young Atlantis"
"The Collected Works"
"All Of My Days And All Of My Days Off"