The Laws Have Changed. And So Has Greil Marcus.

From the February 2008 issue of Interview magazine:

Seated in a half circle at the Gramercy (now the Blender Theater at Gramercy) in Manhattan on October 3, celebrating 30 years as a band, the Mekons took the form of a minstrel show about an old marriage; there was bickering, old scores that could never be settled, and there was, as in their last song, "Wild and Blue," a hint that it is only perseverance, and the years to make it count, that sets the voice free. That free voice was the treasure offered by the New Pornographers. A woman who attended their October 25 show at Webster Hall in Manhattan wrote on the blog Battle of the Midwestern Housewives: "I think I could live the rest of my life in the moments they played 'The Laws Have Changed'." I came away telling friends the show had restored my faith in humanity. The New Pornographers know the trick of high voices: Pitched right, and at the racing pace they favor, they can, on their best nights, make everything seem in doubt, every stand worth making, every chance worth taking. This was their best night.