"Electric Version" is the second studio album of the band and it was released 2003. After "Mass Romantic" the new record sounds much more like an album by a band than a collective and it"s a much more live-sounding and spacious record, with instrumentation kept relatively straightforward and a minimum of evident studio embellishments. "Electric Version is one of the best power pop albums of all time." Every member of the large, collaborative entity that is The New Pornographers were firing on all cylinders, and the result is both a classic piece of indie history and a timeless collection of sounds that are still inspiring artists and bands.